Kremlin criticises Macron remarks on nuclear-armed planes

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin connected Wednesday criticised comments by French President Emmanuel Macron that Paris is unfastened to deploying nuclear-armed warplanes successful different European countries, saying it would not heighten the continent's security.

"The Americans person the bombs connected planes successful Belgium, Germany, Italy, Turkey," Macron told France's TF1 tv connected Tuesday.

"We are acceptable to unfastened this discussion. I volition specify the model successful a precise circumstantial mode successful the weeks and months to come," helium said.

Asked astir Macron's comments, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said: "The proliferation of atomic weapons connected the European continent is thing that volition not adhd security, predictability and stability."

"Right now, the full strategy of strategical stableness and information is successful a deplorable authorities for evident reasons," Peskov said.

Macron archetypal floated the thought of extending the extortion of France's atomic arsenal to different European countries successful March.

The Kremlin said astatine the clip that this amounted to an assertion by France of "nuclear enactment successful Europe", which it said was "very, precise confrontational."

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov, Writing by Lucy Papachristou and Mark Trevelyan, Editing by Timothy Heritage)