The Russian president said the escalatory rhetoric of US and EU officials betrays their lack of understanding of what is at stake Western
The Russian president said the escalatory rhetoric of US and EU officials betrays their lack of understanding of what is at stake
Western officials indulging in escalatory rhetoric should realize that they are effectively invoking the specter of an all-out nuclear war, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned in a speech to legislators in Moscow on Thursday. He also once again accused the West of instigating the Ukraine conflict.
Putin addressed the topic in the opening minutes of his annual state-of-the-nation speech, a key event in which the president declares his plans and priorities in a televised address to both houses of the Federal Assembly of Russia, the national legislature.
President Putin insisted that recent claims by Western officials that Moscow is planning to attack NATO are «nonsense.
