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The conditions for Russia's transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly fixed,
Putin said, ... according to a Reuters translation of his comments But there is more work to do,
Russia has nothing left but nuclear blackmail; it has no other instruments to intimidate the world,
Andriy Yermak, head of the president's office, wrote on Telegram on Wednesday evening A signal that warns these countries of the consequences if they participate in an attack on our country by various means, not necessarily nuclear,
It's totally irresponsible, and I think many in the world have spoken clearly about that when he's been rattling the nuclear saber, including China in the past,
Blinken said in an interview with MSNBC Not for the first time, Putin is playing [a] gamble with his nuclear arsenal,
Everyone understands which countries we are talking about,
Medvedev wrote; a clear reference to Ukraine, which does not possess nuclear weapons, but is supported by the nuclear-armed U.S., as well as France and the U.K. If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will without doubt use all available means to protect Russia and our people - this is not a bluff.
In September 2022, Putin ordered Russia's first military mobilisation since World War Two and said Imagine for a moment that the unimaginable happens
The video broadcast by Tsargrad TV channel began by threatening From a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready.
Asked in an interview with state-controlled Rossiya-1 television if Russia is really ready for a nuclear war, Putin said in March I have decided to conduct a special military operation
Whoever tries to hinder us, or threaten our country or our people, should know that Russia's response will be immediate and will lead you to consequences that you have never faced in your history.
It is proposed that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation."
The victory is needed. They [the West] do not understand any other language. This victory will be ours, we have no doubt."
A proposal along these lines would reward Putin’s aggression, allow him to rest, rearm, reinvade Ukraine – as he has done time and again. It would also embolden would-be aggressors everywhere around the world,
Putin, on the other hand, has no interest in such a peace – recently declaring that Russia would return to the negotiating table only when Ukraine withdraws its troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia; in other words, when Ukraine withdraws from its own territory,
North Korea and Iran are not the only ones aiding and abetting Russia. China, another permanent member of this council, is the top provider of machine tools, microelectronics, and other items that Russia is using to rebuild, to restock, to ramp up its war machine and sustain its brutal aggression