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Moscow: Russia will only use nuclear weapons in the context of the Ukrainian conflict if it faces “the existential threat,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN International Tuesday.
We have a domestic security concept, and it’s public. You can read all the reasons for nuclear arms to use,” Peskov said. “So, if it is an existential threat to our country, then it can be used according to our concept.”
Peskov’s comments came as the interviewer Christiane Amanpour pushed him whether he was onvincing or confident” that President Vladimir Putin would not use the nuclear option in the context of Ukraine.
A few days after Russian troops stormed Ukraine, Putin announced on February 28 that he had placed the country’s strategic nuclear forces at a high warning in the movement that triggered global alarms.
Asked about the statement of Peskov, and the more extensive Russian nuclear attitude, a spokesman for the Pentagon John Kirby called Moscow’s rhetoric in the potential for using nuclear weapons dangerous.”
That said, Kirby stressed that the Pentagon official “hasn’t seen anything that will lead us to conclude that we need to change our strategic prevention posture.”
Russia maintains the largest nuclear warhead supply in the world, and has received minimal support throughout the world for its attack on her neighbor’s former Soviet.
West Defense officials said after the February Putin announcement that they did not see significant signs of mobilizing Russian nuclear forces – strategic bombings, missiles and submarines.
But Moscow has also warned that if the United States and NATO allies supply Ukraine with combat jets, it can increase and expand the war, potentially put Russia in direct confrontation with nuclear armed rivals in the West.
Earlier this month Beatrice Fin, who led the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons, warned Putin using nuclear “extortion” to maintain the international community to prevent the invasion of Ukraine.
Questionably more about Russian attacks in Ukraine, Peskov said he had no intention of occupying his neighbors and asserting his country did not attack civilians.
The main purpose of “operation,” he said, “to get rid of Ukrainian military potential.”
his is why our military only targets military goals and military objects in the Ukrainian region. Not civilian,” he said.
Proof of widespread photography and video support the allegations of human rights groups that Russian forces have attacked many civilian targets in the former Soviet state.
