Russia will only use nuclear weapons when there is a “threat to the existence of the state”, said Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with PBS Newshour on Monday.Full screen He added, “We have a very clear security concept stating that only when there is a threat to the existence of the country, we can and will truly use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat of our country.”
A few days after Russian troops stormed Ukraine, Putin’s Russian President has announced on February 28 that he has placed the country’s strategic nuclear forces on high alert, triggering global alarms. TV
NOT UKRAINE WAR
Now, in an interview on Monday, Dmitry Peskov said that every result from Russian ‘operations’ in Ukraine would not be a reason for using nuclear weapons “Every result of the operation [in Ukraine], of course, is not a reason for the use of nuclear weapons,” Peskov said.
ON BIDEN
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden ‘Putin could not remain in power’, Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was the cause of ‘alarm'”For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said on Saturday at the end of the speech to the crowd in Warsaw. Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, “This is a statement which is of course worrying. We will continue to track the statement of the US President in the most attentive way.”
WAR | LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
- Talks between Russia and Ukraine are underway in Turkey’s Istanbul. “The minimum programme is to solve humanitarian issues, the maximum programme is to reach a ceasefire,” Ukraine’s foreign minister Kuleba said.
- Ukraine’s armed forces have claimed that Russian troops are continuing to target fuel depots and terrorise civilians by taking them hostage.
- Russian attacks near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv have cut power to more than 80,000 homes, officials said.
- The Russian invasion that began on February 24 has resulted in an exodus of more 3.5 million people from Ukraine to other nations. Several civilians, including children, and many more soldiers – from both sides – have lost their lives in the war.