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  • On Wednesday in a televised speech, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb, saying he was ready to use "all means" in his arsenal against the West, which he accused of wanting to "destroy" Russia.

    "It's not a bluff," he also assured.

  • The United States has asked, through private channels, Russia to end its rhetoric about the nuclear threat in the war in Ukraine.

    The use of this weapon would have, warned Washington, “catastrophic” consequences.

  • Vladimir Putin announced last week a “partial mobilization”, which concerns 300,000 reservists.

    Faced with the movement to flee the country that this decision caused, the Russian president increased the prison sentence for deserters to 10 years.

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7:14 a.m .: American warnings follow one another

Shortly before Antony Blinken's declarations, the National Security Advisor of the White House had already warned against the "catastrophic" consequences in the event of the use of nuclear weapons by Moscow.

“We have the ability to speak directly at a high level (to the Russians), to tell them clearly what our message is and to hear theirs,” Jake Sullivan also said on NBC.

"This has happened frequently in recent months, it has even happened in recent days," he said, without however wanting to specify the exact nature of the communication channels used, in order to "protect them".

7:03 a.m .: Washington asks Moscow to stop its nuclear threats

The United States has asked Russia through private channels to end its rhetoric agitating the nuclear threat.

“We have been very clear with the Russians, publicly and privately, to stop talking about nuclear weapons,” US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken said in an interview with CBS News broadcast Sunday. .

“It is very important that Moscow hears us and knows that the consequences would be horrible.

And we have been very clear about this, ”said the Secretary of State.

"Any use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic effects for the country that uses them, of course, but also for many others."

6:54 am: Tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims in Ukraine

Tens of thousands of Hasidic Jews have gathered in the Ukrainian city of Uman for their annual pilgrimage, despite calls to desist because of the ongoing conflict, authorities said Sunday.

Every year, Hasidic pilgrims come from all over the world to this city for the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashana, to the tomb of Rabbi Nahman of Breslev (1772-1810), one of the main figures of Hasidism, an Orthodox current of Judaism .

Although Uman, a city in central Ukraine, is relatively far from the fronts where the Ukrainian and Russian armies clash, the Ukrainian and Israeli authorities had urged pilgrims not to come for the celebrations scheduled for Sunday to Tuesday this year.

6:40 am: Welcome to this new Live

Hello everyone.

Like every day, the editorial staff of

20 Minutes

is mobilized to give you the latest information on the conflict in Ukraine.

And at the start of this week, the nuclear threat agitated by Vladimir Putin is still making Westerners react.

Washington has thus again warned the Kremlin of the "catastrophic" consequences in the event of the use of this weapon.

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