“We have the ability to defend ourselves,” said Biden Jen Psaki, a spokeswoman for President Vladimir Putin.
“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,” the Russian President said earlier.
“It simply came to our notice then by President Putin who constructs threats that do not exist to justify further aggression, and the world community and the American people should see it through this perspective. We have seen him do this over and over again. “Russia has never been threatened by NATO, it has not been threatened by Ukraine, all this is a pattern by Putin,” the US official told ABC and George Stefanopoulos.
“We have the ability “We have to defend ourselves, but we also have to denounce Putin.”
Putin’s nuclear rhetoric is dangerous and irresponsible, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told CNN in response to the Russian president.
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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