Putin’s nuclear rhetoric is dangerous and irresponsible, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told CNN in response to the Russian president.
According to the Kremlin, the Russian president has put his country’s nuclear arsenal on “high alert” following “aggressive statements” by NATO countries and “harsh sanctions” imposed on Russia.
“Senior officials of top NATO countries also allow aggressive statements against our country, so I order the Minister of Defense and the Chief of General Staff [των Ρωσικών
Ενόπλων Δυνάμεων] “to transfer the deterrent forces of the Russian army to a special combat regime,” said the Russian president.
Reacting, Stoltenberg commented that “this is dangerous rhetoric”, announcing that the North Atlantic Alliance’s vigilance is being strengthened. “We are facing a new reality in the field of security” he noted.
“We are sending more anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons in response to Putin’s statements,” he said.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s order to put Russia’s deterrent forces, including nuclear weapons, on alert is an unacceptable escalation, he said. US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas Greenfield.
“It means that President Putin continues to escalate this war in a completely unacceptable way, and we must continue to halt his actions in the strongest possible way,” Greenfield said in an interview with CBS “Face the Nation.”
The agreement with Russia for negotiations on the Ukraine-Belarus border was confirmed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky while exhaling the Moscow ultimatum.
In a statement from his office, Mr. Zelensky clarified that the two delegations will meet “unconditionally” near the river Pripyat.
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