Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on the 22nd (local time) that the risk of a nuclear collision is at its highest level in decades.
According to Russia’s TASS news agency, Vice Minister Ryabkov said in a speech on the topic of “What’s Next: What’s Next?” I’d love to, but it’s higher than anything we’ve seen in the last few decades.”
He also said that the nuclear potential of France and Britain would be considered along with the United States during the New Start negotiations. Although this treaty was signed with the United States, it is interpreted as expressing a will not to overlook the threat of other nuclear powers under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) military alliance.
Deputy Minister Ryabkov said, “NATO member states are increasingly establishing an anti-Russian united front and declaring their intention to inflict strategic defeat on Russia.” .
In this regard, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a suspension of participation in New Start in a joint State of the Union address to Congress on the 21st of last month. It is a temporary suspension, not a resignation. President Putin signed the bill on the 1st.
In a press interview held separately from the event, Vice Minister Ryabkov also warned of the threat of conflict, saying, “The hybrid war against Russia is being waged on a larger and more sophisticated scale than ever before.”
Also referring to U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who said that Russian aircraft approaching U.S. aircraft in international airspace must be shot down, “This war is a war between the United States and a group that recklessly leads the country without predicting what will happen. War,” he denounced.
“Of course (Graham’s remarks) should be taken seriously. “People who say such things do not know the realities of the nuclear age,” he warned. “They completely forget that Russia is prepared to defend against attack by all means.”
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, also warned on Telegram that “the risk of nuclear conflict is increasing, rather than disappearing,” and “the more foreign weapons are supplied to Ukraine every day, the closer a nuclear catastrophe will eventually come.”
Russia regards the depleted uranium shells that Britain will supply to Ukraine as nuclear weapons and is warning of a tough response.
“It means that the West has already started using nuclear weapons,” Putin said in a joint press conference after the summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping the day before. said.
On the same day, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also said in an interview on Rossiya-1, “If Britain supplies depleted uranium shells to Ukraine, we will think about how to respond.”
However, the UK refutes that “this is only a conventional shell, not a nuclear weapon shell,” and that “there is no factor that will escalate and intensify the nuclear crisis.”
Source: Donga
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