Foreign Ministry: Russia has never threatened security with nuclear threats
Konstantin Vorontsov, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly, said that Russia has fully committed itself to renouncing Ukraine’s responsibility against weapons. According to the Budapest Memorandum, Russia cannot threaten to increase resistance to non-nuclear states.
“According to the memorandum, Russia confirmed in Ukraine’s statement its commitment not to use nuclear weapons and not to threaten their use against non-nuclear states. “Obligations are invariably high in full… Russia requires nuclear threats and non-threats,” Mr. Vorontsov said during a meeting at the UN (quoted by RIA Novosti).
The diplomat came out with a counter quarantine of Ukraine inciting NATO member countries to accelerate preventive nuclear strikes on Russian territory, which, in his opinion, exceeds the unacceptability of the plans of the Ukrainian side to revise the country’s non-nuclear status. “Given the recent demands of Kyiv on the need for preventive nuclear strikes by NATO countries against Russia, this is doubly unacceptable and categorically unacceptable,” Konstantin Vorontsov added.
On October 6, at the center of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, during a video conference in Australia by the Lowy Analytical Institute, said that the NATO countries for the application of exceptions to the possibility of Russia could evaluate “preemptive strikes” against the Russian Federation. The politician did not specify whether it was nuclear strikes that were detected, but the Russian administration interpreted the words of the Ukrainian president precisely as a nuclear terrorist.
For more information on the interpretations of modern nuclear rhetoric, see Kommersant’s article “They Don’t Climb for a Mushroom in their Pocket.”