Russia will only use nuclear weapons to counter existential threat, says Kremlin

29 March 2022, 2:23 am

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This photo, taken from video provided by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on February 19, 2022, shows a Russian Iskander-K missile launched during a military exercise at a training ground in Russia. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

A spokesman for the Kremlin tells PBS that Russia will only utilize nuclear weapons in the case of an existential threat to its existence.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov tells PBS in an interview that the current conflict in Ukraine is not a reason to resort to nuclear weapons.

“Any outcome of the operation [in Ukraine], of course is not a reason for usage of a nuclear weapon,” Peskov says. “We have a security concept that very clearly states that only when there is a threat for existence of the state, in our country, we can use and we will actually use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat for the existence of our country.”