Putin: Russia is ready for a nuclear war and we will deploy our forces on the borders of Finland. He added that if the United States conducted nuclear tests, Russia might do the same.
Putin said that Finland and Sweden joining NATO is a "meaningless step" and that Russia will deploy forces and destruction systems on the Finnish border after Finland joins the alliance. However, Putin said Russia has never faced a need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, where the conflict has been raging since February 2022.