NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania, on November 5, 2025. REUTERS/Inquam/George Calin
As reported by Romanian publication Digi24
The NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte commented on the Kremlin’s convening of a meeting of the Russian Security Council, during which Vladimir Putin stated that a possible nuclear weapons test could take place. Speaking at a joint press conference with Romanian President Nicusor Dan in Bucharest on November 5, Rutte noted that he has not been reacting to such events for a long time.
“I haven’t been reacting to meetings organized by Putin for a long time. He gets paid as the President of Russia, so he organizes the meetings”
– Mark Rutte
On November 5, at a meeting of the Security Council, Putin tasked the government and the security services with gathering information about U.S. nuclear tests and “submitting coordinated proposals for the possible start of work to prepare nuclear weapons tests in Russia.”
Subsequently, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in a comment to the Russian news agency TASS, stated that the Russian leader did not mean the possible start of nuclear weapons tests, but only ordered “to examine their feasibility.”
In February 2021, the United States extended the Treaty on the Reduction of Strategic Offensive Arms (New START) with Russia for another five years.
On February 21, 2023, Putin announced that Russia was suspending its participation in New START, but not withdrawing from the treaty, and submitted the corresponding bill to the State Duma for consideration. By February 23, Russian lawmakers had supported it.
At the end of October 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to resume testing of nuclear weapons in order to level the playing field with other states conducting their own tests.
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