Lavrov said that Russia is not playing with the topic of nuclear war

He recalled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's mobilization of Western support against Russia.

“In his Russophobic rhetoric, he stated that no one is going to change the policy in matters of the Russian language and the Russian media, and will not persecute neo-Nazi battalions ... Then he said that Ukraine made a mistake when it refused the status of a nuclear power, and they may again think about the possession of nuclear weapons,” said Lavrov.

Earlier, the head of Russian diplomacy noted that the inadmissibility of a nuclear war is Russia's principled position.

US Ambassador to Russia John Sullivan on CNN called the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the threat of nuclear war as nuclear blackmail.