Responses to Putin’s statements were not long in coming. Ned Price, the spokesman for the US State Department, reacted to Putin’s remarks by stressing that “any light talk regarding nuclear weapons is absolutely irresponsible“.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed adding nearly 200 additional individuals and entities to the EU sanctions list once morest Moscow, including the armed forces of Russia and three banks of the country.
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