World on verge of new Cuban Missile Crisis over Russia’s nuclear threats, Ukraine warns
Mr. Putin, who has also ordered a partial mobilization of Russia’s military reserves, delivered his address ahead of “referendums” being held in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. Moscow is widely expected toafter the stage-managed votes, so Mr. Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory may soon apply to large parts of Ukraine, including areas where Ukrainian troops are currently on the offensive.
Former president Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of the country’s Security Council, put the warning in even starker terms Thursday when he said the four Ukrainian regions would be “accepted into Russia” after the referendums and that “any Russian weapons, including strategic nuclear weapons and weapons based on new principles, could be used” to protect those territories after annexation.
Mr. Podolyak said the referendums – which he called a propaganda exercise – and any annexation announcements would have no effect on Ukraine’s plans to liberate all the territory currently under Russian occupation, including the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014 after a referendum carried out under military occupation.
“It doesn’t adjust the goal of Russia, which is to destroy Ukraine, and it doesn’t adjust the goal of Ukraine, which is to protect itself from Russia.”
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