The statement in Estonia that made the Kremlin say that Russia feels threatened. “It would be an immediate danger”

The Kremlin said on Friday that the availability expressed by Estonia about a possible host of NATO's F-35A F-35A manufacturing planes, capable of transporting nuclear weapons, is a direct threat to Moscow, Reuters reports.

Estonian Minister of Defense, Hanno Pekvur, told Postimees on Thursday that Estonia, who is neighbor to Russia and is a rotation for NATO aircraft pregnant with the protection of the Baltic Air Space, is ready to host nuclear capabilities if necessary.

“If some of them, regardless of their country of origin, have a double use capacity to transport nuclear weapons, this does not affect our position on the host of F-35 aircraft,” said Pekvur, quoted by the publication.

“Of course, we are ready to host our allies,” added the Defense Minister of Estonia.

Hanno Pekvur made the statements after the United Kingdom announcement of the purchase of at least 12 F-35A aircraft capable of transporting nuclear focoa and on the fact that they will join the NATO aerial nuclear mission.

Moscow's reaction

Asked about Pevkur's comments, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, said such a move would be an obvious threat to Russia.

“Of course, it would be an immediate danger,” Peskov told a journalist from the Russian Life. The Kremlin representative claims that the statement of the Estonian official is one of the many “absurd thoughts” expressed by the politicians in the Baltic region – which includes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

“We have practically no relationship with the Baltic Republics,” the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov concluded.