Russia: Our use of nuclear weapons is based solely on the logic of deterrence

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday that nuclear threats "have not and will not be declared by Russia," stressing that Moscow's use of nuclear weapons is based solely on the logic of deterrence.

The official website of the Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Zakharova as saying: “Statements made on the eve of the conference of participating states (to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) in the context of the Ukrainian conflict on mutual threats to use nuclear weapons, as well as individual statements from the podium of the conference about alleged nuclear blackmail of Russia, could not Unless it causes bewilderment, we emphasize again, there have never been any nuclear threats from Russia and never have."

"Russian approaches are based only on the logic of deterrence, including in the current circumstances, when the NATO countries that exacerbated the Ukrainian crisis and launched a hybrid campaign against Russia and declared themselves a nuclear alliance, in a dangerous balancing act on the brink of direct armed conflict," Zakharova added.

"Like it or not, as long as nuclear weapons exist, the logic of deterrence remains an effective means of preventing nuclear collision and large-scale wars," Zakharova added.

"Distortion of the essence of Russian policy in this area for propaganda purposes, on the basis of the inadmissibility of nuclear war, is absolutely unacceptable," she added.

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