Moscow: Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement on Friday (June 24, 2022) that Russia has never threatened anyone with nuclear weapons and that Moscow’s approach to the issue of imaginary use of nuclear weapons is based entirely on logic. is detention.
Statements made a day before the conference of ” [TPNW] States’ sides in the context of the Ukrainian conflict regarding ‘mutual threats to the use of nuclear weapons’, as well as individual statements from the conference podium regarding Russia’s alleged ‘nuclear blackmail’ could cause panic. We emphasize again: no ‘nuclear threat’ from Russia has ever been and has never been heard,” the statement said.
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According to Zakharova, “Russian approaches are based entirely on deterrence logic, including in the current circumstances, when NATO countries provoked an escalation of the Ukrainian crisis and launched a hybrid campaign against Russia and called themselves a ‘nuclear alliance’. ‘ declared. Balancing dangerously on the verge of direct armed conflict.”
“Like it or not, as long as nuclear weapons exist, the argument of deterrence is an effective way to prevent nuclear conflict and large-scale wars. Distortion for propaganda purposes of the essence of Russian policy in the region – which is based on the assumption of the unacceptability of nuclear war – absolutely unacceptable,” he said.