Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The risk of a nuclear war between the United States and Russia is increasing. Russian officials have even openly raised the possibility.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday (23/3/2023) that the risk of a nuclear war with the United States touched the highest level in recent decades.
He conveyed this warning to illustrate how big the possibility of a nuclear clash between Russia and the United States is regarding the current war in Ukraine.
Reported Reuters, Ryabkov made this statement in an event entitled ‘A World Without START: What’s Next.’ He also reminded that Russia had withdrawn from the New START Agreement in February.
“I don’t want to get into the discussion about whether the probability of a nuclear conflict is increasing today, but it is higher than anything we have had over the last few decades,” Ryabkov said.
Ryabkov said Russia was committed to keeping the world safe and free from the threat of nuclear war, but added that the current state of affairs could not continue as normal, given that Moscow was now “in a de facto state of open conflict with the United States.”
A year since the Ukrainian invasion, the Kremlin has repeatedly accused Washington of directly participating in the conflict by supplying Kyiv with weapons. Meanwhile, they declared war as a battle for the survival of Russian society.
Both the United States and Russia say that a nuclear war can never be won and must not happen, but the conflict in Ukraine has raised fears of a direct confrontation between the two.
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