In an interview with Russian state media, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia is ready for the possibility of a nuclear war, although such a scenario is not on the agenda, UNN reports with reference to the Associated Press.
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If there is a threat to the statehood of the aggressor country, then, as Russian President Vladimir Putin declared in his speech a few days before the March 15-17 presidential elections, "from a military and technical point of view" Russia is "certainly ready" to use nuclear weapons.
At the same time, Putin assured that the nuclear war scenario has not been put into action and that he sees no need to use these weapons in Ukraine.
The Russian leader has repeatedly spoken about his readiness to use nuclear weapons since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The latest such threat came in his state of the nation address last month, when he warned the West that deepening its involvement in the fighting in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war.
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