According to a report by RIA news agency, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that if a third World War were to take place, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive.
Russia, which is involved in a “special military operation’ against Ukraine since last week, would face a “real danger” if Kyiv acquired nuclear weapons, Lavrov has said.
The Putin-led Russia, after a week since it launched a full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, said its forces took control the first sizable city on Wednesday, seizing Kherson, in the south, as fighting raged around the European country and Western nations tightened an economic noose around Russia.
Since Putin launched the offensive against its southern neighbour, more than half a million Ukrainians have fled the fighting.
US President Joe Biden, in his maiden State of the Union Address, accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of waging a “premeditated and unprovoked” war against Ukraine, and said that the United States is ready to tackle the challenge posed by him.
“Putin’s war was premeditated and unprovoked. He rejected efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West and NATO wouldn’t respond. And, he thought he could divide us here at home. Putin was wrong. We were ready,” Joe Biden said.
President Biden also branded Vladimir Putin as a “dictator” and warned Russia’s billionaires that he was coming after their yachts and private jets. “A Russian dictator, invading a foreign country, has costs around the world,” Biden told lawmakers in his address, promising “robust action to make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at Russia’s economy.”
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