Russia rejects insinuations about threats of nuclear threats in Ukraine – Russian Foreign Ministry
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Russia rejects insinuations about the threats of nuclear threats and possible actions aimed at ensuring security in case of undermining the nuclear threat in Ukraine, said Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy head of the department for nonproliferation and control over problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This is reported TASS.
Speaking at the NPT review conference, he clarifies that Moscow will later respond to these allegations, exercising its right of reply in the conference debate.
The diplomat also said that Russia rejects accusations of the causeless nature of the campaign to protect the LPR and DPR on the territory of Ukraine. Vyshnevetsky appointed that for 8 years Ukrainian nationalists had been killing civilians in the Donbass and preparing a large-scale invasion in these republics.
“The regime now ruling in Kyiv came to power as a result of a coup d’état and immediately began persecution, after which a military struggle against the Russian-speaking population of Donbass,” he said.
Vishnevetsky noted that a hybrid military campaign was unleashed against Russia, which is fraught with an open conflict between the two nuclear powers. He recalled that, according to Moscow, there can be no winners in a nuclear war, so it should never be unleashed.
On the night of February 24, Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to use the application in the Donbass. At the same time, he stressed that the plans of the powers of the Russian Federation do not include the occupation of the territories of Ukraine. The heads of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik demanded the President of the Russian Federation to help repel aggression from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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