Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today, Friday, that the statements of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which… He suggested that NATO launch pre-emptive strikes Against Russia, it “confirms the need” for what it called a “special operation” in Ukraine, which Kyiv quickly responded to, noting that the Ukrainian president’s statements regarding a “preemptive strike” were referring to imposing sanctions.
In a discussion with the Lowy Institute, an Australian think tank, Zelensky said he believed that Strikes are necessary to prevent any use of nuclear weapons. He did not go into detail regarding what kind of strikes he intended, nor did he indicate any need for nuclear strikes.
Lavrov explained, during a speech to the “United Russia Party”, that NATO supports the Ukrainian president to confront Russia and impose hegemony, stressing that the West bears responsibility for providing the Kyiv regime with weapons.
Lavrov added: “Yesterday, Zelensky called on the Westerners to launch a preemptive nuclear strike on Russia. In this way, this man in fact gave further evidence to the whole world of the threats coming from the Kyiv regime, which the special military operation was launched in order to neutralize.”
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“We warned NATO countries of the consequences of supplying Ukraine with weapons,” Lavrov stressed, stressing that Russia’s position on nuclear deterrence has not changed.
“We once once more warn the United States and other sponsors of the Kyiv regime once morest further involvement in the issue as parties to the conflict. As for us, as we have repeatedly made clear, our military doctrine and the foundations of the state’s policy in the field of nuclear deterrence have not changed,” he said.
Lavrov noted that “the appetite of the Kyiv regime is growing” and that Zelensky “began to dictate its conditions to NATO and the European Union,” warning that the actions of the Kyiv regime are aimed at creating risks of using different types of weapons of mass destruction.
In response to Lavrov’s comments, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s spokesman said the president was referring to sanctions once morest Russia when he said pre-emptive strikes were necessary to prevent any use of nuclear weapons.
“Guys, you have gone too far with your nuclear hysteria,” spokesman Serhiy Nikiforov wrote on Facebook.
He added, “It was necessary to take precautionary measures to prevent Russia from starting the war. And let me remind you that the only measures that would have been taken at that time were precautionary sanctions,” noting that the insinuations of using nuclear weapons “was only made by the state of Russia.”
In front of European leaders assembled in Prague Zelensky asked to continue providing military assistance To Kyiv so that “Russian tanks do not advance towards Warsaw or Prague”.
He also called on NATO countries to launch preventive strikes once morest Russia, and not to wait for Russian nuclear strikes, and Zelensky said that the Russian president would not be able to save his life if he used nuclear weapons.
Moscow attacked the Ukrainian president’s statements, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Such statements are nothing but a call to start a new world war With brutal and unexpected repercussions.”
But Kyiv made it clear that its president was talking regarding preventive sanctions, not nuclear strikes.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova considered that the West is igniting a nuclear war in the hands of Vladimir Zelensky, and that he has become heavily armed, and has turned into a monster that may destroy the planet with his own hands.
