MOSCOW —
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that there could be “no
winners” in a nuclear war and it should “never be unleashed”.
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He made the statement as a review of the
keystone nuclear treaty opened at the UN.
In an address to the 10th Nuclear
Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, Putin insisted that Russia
remained faithful to the treaty’s “letter and spirit”.
“There can be no winners in a nuclear
war and it must never be unleashed,” he said.
Ties between
Russia and the West have
been unraveling since Putin sent troops to pro-Western Ukraine on February 24.
On Monday, the US, Britain, and France
rebuked Russia for “irresponsible and dangerous” talk about possibly deploying
nuclear weapons.
Since the start of Moscow’s military
intervention in Ukraine, Putin has made thinly veiled threats hinting at a
willingness to deploy Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons, which Russian military
doctrine holds can be used to force an adversary to retreat.
Russian state propaganda has also argued
for using nuclear weapons in the conflict.
In May, Russian editor and Nobel Peace
Prize laureate
Dmitry Muratov warned that the Kremlin’s “propaganda warriors”
were striving to make nuclear weapons use more palatable to the Russian public.
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