Vladimir Putin judges that Western threats create a “real” risk of nuclear conflict. “Everything that they are inventing now, what they are scaring the world with, all this constitutes a real threat of conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, which means the destruction of civilization,” said the Russian president.
The hypothesis of sending Western troops to Ukraine was ruled out by the United States and several of their European allies. Putin welcomes the advance in Ukraine of his troops, who have achieved several successes in recent weeks against Kiev forces on the defensive and lacking ammunition.