MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - Russia does not have nuclear weapons in space nor any technology for creating anti-satellite fields, and the West knows this, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"We do not have any nuclear weapons deployed in space, or elements of nuclear weapons being used on satellites, or fields created to stop satellites working effectively. We don't have any of that, and they know that we don't, but they are still making noise [about it]," Shoigu said at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
"The reason why the West is making this noise [about Russia's supposed plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space] consists of two things: first, to scare senators and congressmen, to extract funding supposedly not just for Ukraine, but also to counter Russia and to subject it to strategic defeat," Shoigu said.
"And second, in our view they would like to push us so clumsily into restarting a dialogue on strategic stability," Shoigu said.