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  • Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Wednesday that the conflict in Ukraine was "long" and put the risk of recourse to nuclear weapons into perspective.

    "We haven't gone mad, we know what nuclear weapons are."

    Nevertheless, "the threat of a nuclear war is growing", in view of the Russian-Western confrontation around Ukraine, he noted, blaming this situation on the Americans and the Europeans.

  • For German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the international community “has drawn a red line” for Russia and has helped reduce the risk of Moscow resorting to nuclear weapons.

  • Time

    named Volodymyr Zelensky personality of the year 2022. According to the editor of the American magazine, the Ukrainian president notably "proved that courage can be as contagious as fear" and "reminded the world of the fragility of democracy" .

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6:48 am: Olaf Scholz reassures on the atomic bomb

In an interview published on Thursday, Olaf Scholz judges for his part that the risk of a recourse to nuclear weapons by Moscow has diminished because the international community, including China, "has drawn a red line" to Russia.

“One thing has changed for now: Russia has stopped threatening to use nuclear weapons,” the German Chancellor told German media group

Funke

and

Ouest France

.

The leader believes that his recent trip to China has paid off: “During my visit to Beijing, Chinese President Xi and I jointly declared that nuclear weapons should not be used.

Shortly after, the G20 countries reaffirmed this position”.

6:35 am: For Washington, Putin's words are "irresponsible"

Vladimir Putin's latest statements on the nuclear bomb once again displease Washington.

The United States thus described Wednesday as “irresponsible” the words “lightly” of the Russian president, who relativized the risk of recourse to nuclear weapons.

The spokesman for the US State Department, Ned Price, notably recalled that the nuclear powers throughout the world since the Cold War, including China, the United States, and Russia itself have been clear on the fact that "a nuclear conflict must never occur and can never be won".

“We believe that any other rhetoric, whether nuclear threats or even the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons, is irresponsible,” he insisted.

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Hello everyone.

Like every day, the editorial staff of

20 Minutes

is mobilized to give you all the information on the war in Ukraine.

Since Wednesday, the subject of the atomic bomb has returned to the news of the conflict.

During a meeting in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin indeed blew hot and cold on this issue.

"The threat of a nuclear war is growing" thus estimated the master of the Kremlin, but temporizing at the same time: "We have not gone mad, we know what nuclear weapons are".

According to him, Russia will not use this weapon “first under any circumstances”.

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