{"id":70771,"date":"2024-03-13T12:58:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/putin-warns-the-west-russia-is-ready-for-nuclear-war\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T12:58:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:58:18","slug":"putin-warns-the-west-russia-is-ready-for-nuclear-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/putin-warns-the-west-russia-is-ready-for-nuclear-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin warns the West: Russia is ready for nuclear war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Putin, speaking just days before a March 15-17 election which is certain to give him another six years in power, said the nuclear war scenario was not \u201crushing\u201d up and he saw no need for the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1818076\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFrom a military-technical point of view, we are, of course, ready,\u201d Putin, 71, told <em>Rossiya-1<\/em> television and news agency <em>RIA<\/em> in response to a question about whether the country was ready for a nuclear war.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the US understood that if it deployed American troops on Russian territory \u2014 or to Ukraine \u2014 Russia would treat the move as an intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[In the US] there are enough specialists in the field of Russian-American relations and in the field of strategic restraint,\u201d said Putin, the ultimate decision-maker in the world\u2019s biggest nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore, I don\u2019t think that here everything is rushing to it (nuclear confrontation), but we are ready for this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Putin\u2019s nuclear warning came alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1799334\">another offer for talks<\/a> on Ukraine as part of a new post-Cold War demarcation of European security. The US says Putin is not ready for serious talks over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Ukraine has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia\u2019s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and Putin has warned several times the West risks provoking a nuclear war if it sends troops to fight in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Putin sent tens of thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering full-scale war after eight years of conflict in eastern Ukraine between Ukrainian forces on one side and pro-Russian Ukrainians and Russian proxies on the other.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"nuclear-war\" href=\"#nuclear-war\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Nuclear war?<\/h2>\n<p>In a US election year, the West is grappling with how to support Kyiv against Russia, which now controls almost one-fifth of Ukrainian territory and is rearming much faster than the West and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv says it is defending itself against an imperial-style war of conquest designed to erase its national identity. Russia says the areas it controls in Ukraine are now Russia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1781709\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Putin has sent a series of public nuclear warnings to the US aimed at discouraging greater involvement in Ukraine \u2014 a move the Kremlin says would mark a slide into world war.<\/p>\n<p>Washington says it has seen no major changes to Russia\u2019s nuclear posture but Putin\u2019s public nuclear warnings \u2014 which break with the extreme caution of the Soviet leadership over such remarks \u2014 have sown concern in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Putin reiterated the use of nuclear weapons was spelt out in the Kremlin\u2019s nuclear doctrine, which sets out the conditions under which it would use such a weapon: broadly a response to an attack using nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction, or the use of conventional weapons against Russia \u201cwhen the very existence of the state is put under threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons exist in order to use them,\u201d Putin said. \u201cWe have our own principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>CNN<\/em> reported on Saturday the administration of US President Joe Biden was specifically concerned in 2022 that Russia might use a tactical or battlefield nuclear weapon in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said he had never felt the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h2><a id=\"talks\" href=\"#talks\" class=\"heading-permalink\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"Permalink\"\/>Talks?<\/h2>\n<p>Putin said Russia was ready for serious talks on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is ready for negotiations on Ukraine, but they should be based on reality \u2014 and not on cravings after the use of psychotropic drugs,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em> reported last month that Putin\u2019s suggestion of a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war was rejected by the US after contacts between intermediaries.<\/p>\n<p>US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns warned earlier this week that if the West did not provide proper support for Ukraine, Kyiv would lose more territory to Russia which would embolden Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>Burns, a former US ambassador to Russia, told the Senate Intelligence Committee it was in US interests to support Ukraine to allow it to get into a stronger position before talks.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said he trusted no one and Russia would need written security guarantees in the event of a settlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t trust anyone, but we need guarantees, and guarantees must be spelt out, they must be such that we would be satisfied,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine, it would be considered a significant escalation of the conflict. 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