"The Finns won't like it." Moscow threatened with measures against the background of Helsinki's plans to deploy a "nuclear club" near the borders of Russia

MWM: Finnish F-35 fighter jets are optimal for nuclear weapons attacks on Russia

Military Watch Magazine (MWM) reported that Finland is approaching an agreement with the United States on the joint use of nuclear weapons (NWS) on fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets on the border with Russia. The Finns should receive 64 such aircraft.

According to the magazine, one B61-13 nuclear bomb allows an F-35 fighter to destroy more than 310 thousand residents of Moscow or 360 thousand residents of St. Petersburg in one strike.

Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter jet in Tervo, Finland.
Source: Ole Andreas Vekve / NTB / Reuters

MWM also wrote that Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters can launch nuclear weapons attacks, but their deployment in the regions bordering Finland is only expected.

The Finnish authorities wanted to allow the import of nuclear weapons

The Finnish Ministry of Defense earlier reported that the government had proposed allowing the import and storage of nuclear weapons as part of ensuring the state's defense capability.

The head of the Finnish department, Antti Hyakkanen, said that the bill is aimed at maximizing the republic's security in an unpredictable operational environment and is designed to "raise the threshold" for the use of military force against Finland and NATO.

In Russia, Helsinki's decision was called risky

Alexey Chepa, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Relations, in an interview with Lenta.<url> commented on Finland's plans to deploy a "nuclear club" near the borders of Russia.

The first serial nuclear bomb is B61-13.
Source: U.S. Department of Energy / Wikipedia

He noted that the Finnish authorities, by allowing the import of nuclear weapons into the territory of the republic, are making a serious and very risky decision for themselves, which they may regret. This will affect the positions of the Finnish leadership, the parliamentarian believes. According to him, this country is turning from a neutral into a Russophobic state that supports the arms race.

The Kremlin reacted to Helsinki's plans

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, had previously responded to Finland's plans to allow the import and storage of nuclear weapons. A Kremlin spokesman called it a concentrated confrontation.

Alexander Kamkin, a senior researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said earlier that Poland, which plans to conduct joint air force exercises with France and practice strikes against Russian targets, wants to gain access to nuclear weapons.