Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that “all countries in the world should be prepared for the possibility of nuclear attack.” President Zelensky said that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use strategic nuclear weapons in his war against Ukraine and other NATO countries.
Zelensky told the media in an exclusive interview that Putin may turn to nuclear or chemical weapons. He does not care the lives of the people of Ukraine. Zelensky said, “Not only me – the whole world, all countries have to be concerned because this may not be real information, but it may be true.”
“Chemical weapons, they should do it, they could, people’s lives for them, nothing. So,” said Zelensky. “We should think not to be afraid, not to be afraid but to be ready. But it is not a question of Ukraine not only for Ukraine but for the whole world, I think.
“There can be no more talk of any nuclear–free status for the Baltic – the balance must be restored,” said Medvedev, who was Russian president from 2008 to 2012.
Russia has the world’s biggest arsenal of nuclear warheads and along with China and the United States is one of the global leaders in hypersonic missile technology.
Lithuania said Russia’s threats were nothing new and that Moscow had deployed nuclear weapons to Kaliningrad long before the war in Ukraine. NATO did not immediately respond to Russia’s warning.
Still, the possible accession of Finland and Sweden into NATO – founded in 1949 to provide Western security against the Soviet Union – would be one of the biggest strategic consequences of the war in Ukraine.
In March, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov had told a news agency that Russia’s security policy dictates that the country would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened.
