Matviyenko called the statement about the threat of the use of nuclear weapons emanating from Russia

“The collective West has already exhausted its arguments to discredit Russia, to stir up such ardent Russophobia around Russia, to scare the world with such a terrible Russia.

They started to run this cartoon about the nuclear threat to Russia.

This is another lie, another fake, ”TASS quotes her.

Matviyenko stressed that Russia never had plans to threaten anyone with nuclear weapons — she noted that they are seen by Moscow solely as a deterrent.

Earlier, Director of the Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladimir Yermakov announced Russia's commitment to the statement of the leaders of the nuclear five countries on the inadmissibility of starting a nuclear war.

The Foreign Ministry also reported that the use of nuclear reaction forces by Moscow, according to Russian military doctrine, is possible only in response to aggression.