The Kremlin said today that comments made about nuclear weapons by Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with state media did not constitute a threat to use them.
Putin said yesterday, Wednesday, addressing the West that Russia is “technically ready” for a nuclear war and that if the US were to send troops to Ukraine, Moscow would perceive this as a major escalation of the war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted today that Putin was simply answering a reporter’s questions and repeating the already well-known conditions under which Russia would theoretically be forced to use nuclear weapons.
At the same time, the representative of the Russian presidency refused today to comment on the attack with a hammer received by an associate of the late opposition leader in the Kremlin, Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov, in Lithuania.
Volkov was attacked outside his home in Vilnius.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausenda said it was clear the attack was premeditated and told Putin that no one in his country was afraid of him.
Responding to a question he received about Nausteda’s statement, Peskov noted that Putin should not be feared, but respected and listened to.
Finally commenting on information about the strengthening of American military forces in the Arctic, the Kremlin representative noted that Russia considers this region of great strategic importance.
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