Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked in a BBC interview for the imposition of preventive sanctions on Russia, stating that the Russian authorities they started to “prepare their company” on the possible use of nuclear weapons in warfare.
Speaking in English to the BBC, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “They (the Russians – ed) are starting to prepare their company. This is very dangerous”.
Zelensky does not know what the risk of a nuclear war is, but Putin will not survive
And Putin understands that using nuclear weapons will no longer save his life
“They’re not ready to do it, to use it. But they’ve started talking anyway. They don’t know if they’re going to use it or not. I think. that it is dangerous to even talk about it (the nuclear weapon – ed) “, summed up the Ukrainian president.
In a BBC interview, Zelensky denied calling a strike against Russia, arguing that his previous statement was it has been mistranslated.
“Preemptive strikes should be used,” the Ukrainian president said, referring to sanctions “not attacks”.
Initially, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov condemned Zelensky’s words as “an invitation to start another world war”.
Zakharova insists: Russia is committed to avoiding nuclear war
There will be no winners in such a war, Zakharova explains
For its part, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrovthat Zelensky’s words show why Russia had the right to initiate the military operation against Ukraine.
Zelensky’s interview came just hours after US President Joe Biden said Russia’s threat to use nuclear weapons was brought the world closer to “Armageddon” how ever since the Cuban missile crisis during the Cold War.
The president of Ukraine indicated that action is needed now due to the threats posed by Russia “a risk for the whole planet”. He said Moscow “has already taken a step” by occupying the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. President Putin has already tried to make it a Russian property by signing a special decree for its annexation.
“The world should urgently stop the actions of the Russian occupiers,” Zelensky said. “The world can apply the sanctions package in these cases and do whatever it takes to get them to leave the nuclear power plant.”
In recent weeks, the Ukrainian army has recaptured large swathes of the country in a successful counter-offensive that forced Russian troops to they have left their positions. In response to his defeats, President Vladimir Putin annexed four partially occupied regions of Ukraine.
Russia also attacked the city of Zaporizhia for the first time with kamikaze drones
According to preliminary information, there is a victim who has been hospitalized
The annexation, widely dismissed as illegal, raised fears of a possible escalation of the seven-month war.
President Putin and other senior Russian officials have suggested that smaller tactical nuclear weapons can be used to protect these areasalthough Western experts say there is no evidence that Moscow is ready to do so.
