Kyiv: The world must prepare the possibility of use by Russian nuclear weapons, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters on Saturday, repeating the previous warning.
“We shouldn’t wait at that time when Russia decided to use nuclear weapons,” he said in an interview with Ukrainian news media.
“We must prepare it.”
Medical anti-radiation and air stream shelter will be needed, he said. Russia, he said, “can use any weapon, I convinced it”.
The interview was forwarded by six Ukrainian news sites and also broadcast by the Ukrainian presidency on the telegram.
It was on Friday, Zelensky warned that the world had to worry about Putin’s threat posing, echo comments by Director of CIA William Burns.
Burns said on Thursday that the setback of the Russian battlefield raised the risk that President Vladimir Putin could spread tactical nuclear weapons or low results.
The Kremlin said he had placed Russian nuclear forces with a high warning shortly after the attack began on February 24, but the United States said he did not see signs of unusual nuclear movements.
Moscow said it would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine in the case of “existential threat” to Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN in a recent interview.
Russian military doctrine includes the principle “increases to eliminate eskalat” to launch small nuclear weapons to regain initiatives in the war.
US President Joe Biden “is very concerned about avoiding Third World War, about avoiding the threshold where nuclear conflict becomes possible,” Burns said.