Putin: Western threats against Russia have created ‘real risk’ of nuclear war

By AFP 29 February 2024, 12:30 pm

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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his State of Nation address in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, February 29, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

President Vladimir Putin warns Western countries that Russia has weapons that could strike within their territory and that their threats created a “real” risk of nuclear war.

“They should eventually realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory,” he says at his annual State of Nation address.

“Everything that the West comes up with creates the real threat of a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and thus the destruction of civilization.”