Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that by supplying weapons to Ukraine, “the US and its NATO allies risk direct confrontation between the nuclear powers,” Lavrov told Reuters in an interview with The International Affairs magazine, that appeared on the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. on Saturday.
Lavrov also stated that “possession of nuclear weapons is the only possible response to external security threats to our country.”
We believe that this development should be prevented. Therefore, we must remind ourselves of the high military and political risk and send cautious signals to our opponents
– reports Reuters.
The agency recalls that US President Joe Biden recently ruled that the threat of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons in connection with the conflict with Ukraine “is real”. In contrast, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this week that the Alliance had not detected any changes in Russia’s nuclear forces.
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Source: wPolityce