Dmitry Medvedev, vice-chairman of the Russian Security Council, once again defended the combat use of nuclear weapons this Tuesday (27) in an interview with his country’s media.
“Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons if necessary, on the basis of nuclear doctrine. We will do everything possible to prevent hostile neighbors like Ukraine from buying nuclear weapons,” he told Russian sources. Medvedev said his threats were “not bluffing”.
This is not the first time the former Russian president, who is very close to current president Vladimir Putin, has threatened to use nuclear weapons, alarming the international community.
Vatican Foreign Minister Cardinal Pietro Parolin, at a high-level meeting at the United Nations the previous day, once again criticized those threatening the use of nuclear weapons, emphasizing that the current world “is close to the abyss of a nuclear war”, according to the Catholic portal Vatican News.
For Vatican number 2, the threats to use such weapons in the war in Ukraine “in a conflict of dimensions unseen for generations” are “abhorrent”.
“Nuclear energy is an imminent threat with devastating implications for all humanity, and which demonstrates that the goal of the definitive abolition of atomic weapons, as the Pope wrote in his Fratelli tutti, is as much a challenge as it is a moral and human imperative.” emphasized in a given speech.
The foreign minister’s statements came at a time when the Vatican was trying to visit Pope Francis to both Kiev and Moscow, but the Russian government did not respond to the Vatican’s requests.
source: Noticias
