Poland calls on US to place nukes within its borders amid Russia threat

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has erstwhile again called connected the U.S. to spot atomic weapons wrong its borders successful a amusement of deterrence to Russia’s continued aggression conscionable implicit the borderline successful Ukraine.

A akin petition was seemingly made to the Biden medication successful 2022, which was ne'er agreed to, but Duda has not fixed up connected the idea, this clip addressing his entreaty to the Trump medication during an interrogation with the Financial Times that was published Thursday.

"Russia did not adjacent hesitate erstwhile they were relocating their atomic weapons into Belarus," Duda told the Financial Times successful notation to actions Russia took opening successful 2023 a twelvemonth aft it invaded Ukraine. "They didn't inquire anyone's permission."

The White House did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s questions astir wherever President Donald Trump stands erstwhile it comes to this signifier of deterrence.

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Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks during the Polish parliament gathering successful Warsaw, Poland connected Mar. 7, 2025.  (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Trump medication this week took steps to effort and bring astir an extremity to the warfare successful Ukraine, which has been raging for much than 3 years pursuing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. 

While Ukraine has agreed to the U.S.’s archetypal 30-day ceasefire contingent connected Russia’s acceptance of the terms, Moscow has not, and it is improbable that the Trump medication would instrumentality steps to jeopardize those negotiations by agreeing to enactment U.S. nukes successful Poland – which shares a borderline with Russia and could beryllium viewed arsenic a menace by the Kremlin.

But Duda’s advisor connected planetary affairs, Wojciech Kolarski, echoed the Polish president’s plea and, successful a Thursday interrogation with Poland’s RMF FM radio, argued that arsenic a NATO subordinate who shares a borderline with Russia’s Kaliningrad region, arsenic well as Ukraine and Belarus, the steps were important for Warsaw’s security.

TOPSHOT - Aerial presumption taken connected November 17, 2022 shows the tract wherever a rocket onslaught killed 2 men successful the eastbound Poland colony of Przewodow, adjacent the borderline with war-ravaged Ukraine connected Nov. 15, 2022.  (WOJTEK RADWANSKI,DAMIEN SIMONART/AFP via Getty Images)

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But should the U.S. again garbage Poland’s request, determination is different nuclear-armed federation successful the NATO confederation who whitethorn beryllium consenting to assistance successful "nuclear sharing."

Amid mounting interest successful the European Union that the U.S. could retreat forces from the bloc oregon go an unreliable defence spouse successful countering Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron opened discussions connected a strategy that could assistance widen its atomic deterrence to different EU nations.

French President Emmanuel Macron meets with U.S. President Donald Trump. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

While the specifics of that strategy stay unclear, including whether France has projected really dispersing atomic arms to different nations, Poland has reportedly been successful talks with France astir the issue.

Russia has already called France’s strategy to re-evaluate its hold of atomic deterrence "extremely confrontational."

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Despite Moscow's objections, France’s defence conception is acold from caller arsenic the U.S.’s deterrence umbrella during the Cold War was intended to guarantee NATO allies would beryllium protected nether America's atomic powerfulness in case of a nonstop menace by another nuclear-armed nation, similar Russia, China oregon North Korea.

While France is the EU’s lone atomic power, it has the third-largest atomic stockpile erstwhile it comes to nuclear-armed nations successful NATO, which besides includes the U.S. and the U.K. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.