So she commented on the words of Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, about the participation of countries with nuclear weapons in conflicts.

Dalton noted that she had not seen the statement in person.

“I think you heard the president (USA Joe Biden. - 

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) himself said in the past that such rhetoric ... is dangerous,” TASS quotes her.

Earlier, Medvedev said that the nuclear powers did not lose the major conflicts on which their fate depends.

As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, Russia calls on the West to exercise maximum restraint in the "extremely sensitive" nuclear sphere.

He also warned that the course of the West, aimed at the total containment of Russia, carries the risks of a direct armed clash of nuclear powers.