U.S. might immediately deploy 24 Tomahawk nuclear missiles on ground in worst-case scenario - Ryabkov

MOSCOW. Feb 1 (Interfax) - Russia does not rule out the immediate deployment of 24 U.S. Tomahawk nuclear cruise missiles on the ground, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

"We cannot ignore the possibility of a worst-case scenario of the immediate deployment of 24 Tomahawk nuclear cruise missiles," Ryabkov told the television channel Rossiya 24 (VGTRK).