The United States is facing a “serious Russian security threat.”

USA It is opposite “serious threat” Russian in matters of SecurityThe Republican congressman suggested this Wednesday with a cryptic post on social networks, Mike Turner. The chairman of the intelligence committee of the country’s lower house also published a brief statement on his X account in which he suggested that his team had identified. “matter of urgency” Related to “Capacity”. Destabilizing foreign policyAnd this information was conveyed to all members of Congress.

However, the Speaker of the Lower House, Republican Mike Johnson, urged calm. “I want to assure Americans that there is no need for public alarm. “We are going to work together to resolve this issue, as we do with all classified sensitive issues,” he said in statements to the press.

The release of the documents comes after the committee voted a day earlier in favor of releasing all information about the threat but restricting it to members of the House. That’s why Turner added a special request to the president in his statement Joe Biden So that he also makes all of this data public and that “Congress, the Administration and our allies can openly discuss the actions necessary to respond to this threat.”

The White House maintained relative silence following the release of the message, with only a statement from National Security Council adviser Jack Sullivan saying he was “a little surprised” by the lawmaker’s release, after maintaining a conversation this week. Leaders from both parties have been concerned with security issues in which the decision did not go ahead.

Thus, within minutes, the local media started spreading their own versions, which, although similar, lack official confirmation.

Chain ABC cited two unnamed sources familiar with the situation who maintained that the threat was linked Russia aspires to possibly put nuclear weapons in spaceNot to launch them against planet Earth Use it in a possible attack against Washington satellites. Specifically, it refers to a Russian anti-satellite weapon that may or may not already be deployed and could pose a serious threat to US systems, through which billions of bytes of data are transmitted every hour. It has not been established with certainty whether the Russian weapon actually has a nuclear capability. CNN compatible with ABC.

The Senate refrained from giving clarifications or details about the case but they tried to bring peace of mind to the society.

“The Senate Intelligence Committee has the information in question and has been following this matter vigorously from the beginning. “We continue to take this matter seriously and are discussing with the administration the appropriate response,” House Select Committee Chairman Mark Warner, a Democrat, and His vice president, Republican Marco Rubio, commented.

They then highlighted the need to be “cautious when disclosing sources and methods that may be key to preserving US stock options.”

In that sense, Democrat Jim Himes stressed that the information “is not cause for panic.”

While theories and speculation continue on the subject, Sullivan will meet this Thursday with the “Gang of Eight,” which brings together the leaders and presidents of each party in the Senate and House of Representatives. Opposition members of both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees.

(with information from EFE)