Russia has the right to deploy nuclear arms in Crimea, the peninsula annexed away from Ukraine last year, a Foreign Ministry official claimed Wednesday.
He added, however, that the country has no plans to do so
"I don't know if there are nuclear weapons there now. I don't know about any plans, but in principle Russia can do it," said Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the ministry's department on arms control said to the Interfax news agency.