On Thursday U.S. President Joe Biden said the world was now as close to a quote UN quote nuclear Armageddon as it was during the Cuban missile crisis those remarks were declarations by Moscow that it was willing to defend newly annexed territories using all means necessary including nuclear weapons Russia has also begun moving its nuclear assets towards the Ukrainian border in what is being seen as a show of strength against Kiev and its western backers.
So the Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky chose to chime in as well he evidently wants to become part of the ongoing nuclear Saber rattling, but his remarks mark a dangerous escalation in the ongoing conflict and have sparked fury across the globe speaking to the Australian Lowy institute which conducts political and Economic Research Volodymyr Zelensky said NATO should preemptively strike Russia in order to quote UN quote exclude the possibility of use of nuclear weapons by Russia listen in proven beating you she got it patient received support here's a translation of what Zelensky said what is important I once again appealed to the international community as I did before February 24th.
We need preemptive strikes so that the Russians know what will happen to them if they use them as a nuclear weapons and not the other way around Zelensky also said, and I quote don't wait for Russia's nuclear strikes and then say oh since you did this take that from us, it is also important to remember that Zelensky is threatening a country with the world's largest nuclear arsenal with preemptive strikes the Kremlin came out seething with anger saying Zelensky was trying to stoke an all out nuclear war Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying such statements are nothing other than an appeal to start yet another World War with unpredictable monstrous consequences following Russia's angry response.
The Ukrainian president's office resorted to a damage control campaign Zelensky spokesperson said the leader was referring to preventive economic sanctions that he wanted applied before Russia's full scale invasion adding that Ukraine quote UN quote would never call for the use of nuclear weapons but that's not what Zelensky said his tone in no manner seemed to indicate that he was Speaking of economic sanctions to deter Russia from using nuclear weapons and then sanctions would not prevent Russia from using nukes against Ukraine if it decides to so Zelensky's backtrack seems pretty flimsy the escalation in of an impending nuclear conflict.
May Joe Biden say this we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis he also said that the world risks nuclear Armageddon for the first time since the Cold War adding that Putin is quote UN quote not joking when he threatens to those nuclear weapons do you think the world is on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe.
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