Lavrov disagrees with this claim. 24 January 2024, Lavrov to UN on Ukraine and Israel, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs transcript, Mid.ru/en link:
Unless you have a better source than Lavrov himself.Question: Excuse me, there is no evidence that the United States has deployed tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine or Belarus. It's only Russia doing this at this point because it wants to defend its territory.Sergey Lavrov: I did not say that the Americans are situating their weapons in Ukraine. They have been keeping their nuclear weapons on the territory of five NATO member countries for many years, and the citizens of these countries are being taught how to use these nuclear weapons. That's what I said.
Blinkens own words sealed Ukraine’s fate when he said the US was putting them in Ukraine. Russia acted swuftly to end those plans. Your miscomprehension of nuclear capable in a 60 minute warhead conversion from defensive to offensive doesn’t seem to be understood. The US Missiles in Poland are dual use. Blinken told Lavrov Russia could argue the total numbers but had no say in what NATO Friendly countries recieved US Missiles.
It is sad the western press fails to mention concessions made in Turkey, Minsk, or US diplomatic provocations.
The US is at a historic moment where our military can no longer impose an economic USD based world order. Our sanctions have only increased membership applications to Brics. The world saw Iraq and Lybia destroyed over non-US currencies. Their flight from the USD orbit makes sense for economic and security concerns- 2/3s of the world’s population is too poor for the EU/US fiat, and they seek the stability of asset based trade with nations where overvalued fiat is failing.
Obama/Biden miscalculation have made the graveyard of the west.
The new economic world order will separate the EU/US bloc from the majority 170 nations.
The past 45 days have seen Blinken lose with China, Thailand, Niger and other places as our threats and fiat insolvency escalated.