Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has accused Washington of
“deliberately distorting” President Putin’s remarks about the conditions
under which Russia would use nuclear weapons.
Peskov was referring to White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre’s remarks about an interview the Russian president had given
on Wednesday.
Answering a reporter’s question on whether US President Joe Biden had
been briefed about Putin’s comments, Jean-Pierre responding by saying
that the Russian leader was “restating Russia’s nuclear doctrine” and then went on to claim that “Russia’s nuclear rhetoric has been reckless and irresponsible throughout this conflict.”
RT reports: Peskov described the White House’s reaction to Putin’s interview as an “absolutely deliberate distortion of the context,” adding that “no threats to use nuclear weapons were made by Putin in this interview.”
He indicated that the president was answering the journalist’s
questions rather than making official statements and explained that
Putin “was just talking about the reasons that could make the use of nuclear weapons inevitable.”
The Kremlin spokesperson also drew attention to the fact that
Jean-Pierre had omitted the president’s remark where he stressed that “it has never come into his mind to use tactical nuclear weapons” despite the “various situations” that had emerged on the battlefield.
While answering a question about tactical nuclear arms in the
interview, Putin stressed that weapons of mass destruction have never
been used by Russia in Ukraine.
“Weapons exist to be used. We have our own principles and they
imply that we are ready to use any weapons, including the ones you
mentioned, if we are talking about the existence of the Russian state,
in case of a threat to our sovereignty and independence. Everything is
written in our Strategy, we haven’t changed it.”
In June 2020, Putin signed a decree on Russia’s nuclear deterrence
policy. The document provides for the use of nuclear weapons in a number
of cases, one of which is aggression against Russia using conventional
weapons that puts the existence of the state at risk.
Putin warned that Russia is prepared to use nuclear weapons and considers its arsenal “more advanced than anyone else’s.”
Meanwhile, the Russian leader suggested that Washington has enough
experts in strategic deterrence, including President Joe Biden himself,
to avoid a nuclear conflagration. But he added that if the US abandons
its de facto moratorium on nuclear tests, Moscow will do the same.
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