Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that Moscow’s adversaries probably understood how any attack on Russia or Russian forces using a “a nuclear element” could end.
Putin was talking to the FSB security service, the successor agency to the Soviet KGB.
Putin was speaking after Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service earlier raised concerns about what it said was the possible transfer of elements of nuclear weapons technology to Ukraine.
Russia updated its nuclear doctrine in 2024, setting out the defensive scenarios under which it would consider using them. It said it saw nuclear weapons as a means of deterring its enemies.
Four years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the war there remained “as a stain on our collective conscience” and reiterated calls for an immediate ceasefire.
In remarks for a session of the United Nations Security Council to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion, Guterres commended the efforts of the US and others to end the war, but said concrete measures were needed to de-escalate and create space for diplomacy.
Referring to Russia’s invasion, Guterres said: “We have witnessed the cascading consequences of this blatant violation of international law.”
He said more than 15,000 civilians had been killed in Ukraine since the start of the war and over 41,000 hurt. Among those killed or hurt were 3,200 children.
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