‘If there is threat to our existence then…..’: Russia issues big warning to other countries

Russia will only use nuclear weapons when there is a “threat to the existence of the state”, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with PBS Newshour on Monday.

He added, “We have a security concept that very clearly states that only when there is a threat to the existence of the state, we can and will actually use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat to the existence of our country.”

NOT UKRAINE WAR

Dmitry Peskov said in the interview that any outcome of Russia’s ‘operation’ in Ukraine would not be a reason for use of nuclear weapons.

“Any outcome of the operation [in Ukraine], of course, is not a reason for usage of a nuclear weapon,” Peskov said.

ON BIDEN

On US President Joe Biden’s ‘Putin cannot remain in power’ remark, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was a cause for ‘alarm’.

“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden had said on Saturday at the end of a speech to a crowd in Warsaw.

Dmitry Peskov said on Mondauy, “This is a statement that is certainly alarming. We will continue to track the statements of the U.S. president in the most attentive way.”