Amid escalating nuclear tensions between Russia and Western nations, a high-level meeting involving the five major nuclear-armed states—Russia, the United States, China, France, and Britain—is scheduled to take place in New York in the next two weeks. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov confirmed the meeting but did not specify the exact date or the level of officials attending.
This gathering comes at a crucial time, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, which expanded the scenarios in which Moscow could consider deploying nuclear weapons. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has sharply heightened tensions, making this meeting of the permanent members of the UN Security Council—who are also the world’s leading nuclear powers—potentially pivotal in addressing the growing global security concerns.
