Russian Foreign Ministry: None of the scenarios for the use of nuclear weapons by Russia concerns Ukraine
On Monday, August 1, a conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opened at the UN Headquarters. weapons.
During his speech at the event, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida presented a certain concept for nuclear disarmament, called the "Hiroshima Plan". At the same time, the politician accused Russia of threatening to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine and, as he put it, "aggression" against a neighboring state.
Speaking at the same conference, Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, categorically denied all accusations against Russia regarding nuclear threats.
The diplomat stressed that in our country there are hypothetical scenarios in which nuclear weapons could be used. This is more about retaliatory measures in the event of an attack using these weapons on our country. In addition, Russia is allowed to use its nuclear arsenal in the face of an existential threat to the state.
At the same time, Vyshnevetsky emphasized that none of the above scenarios applies to what is happening in Ukraine. Therefore, all insinuations about the “Russian nuclear threat” are absolutely groundless.
Finally, the diplomat also rejected Russia's accusations of "aggression" against Ukraine. Vyshnevetsky recalled that the Kyiv regime in 2014, having come to power during a coup, began persecution against the Russian-speaking population of Donbass, which led to an armed conflict and genocide of the civilian population of the South-East of Ukraine.
Then, for several years, Kyiv sabotaged the Minsk agreements in every possible way, and at the beginning of 2022 completely refused to implement them, planning a military solution in the Donbass.
As a result, according to Vishnevetsky, our country was forced to intervene in order to prevent the genocide of Russians in the Donbass.
Finally, it is worth adding that the "nuclear threat" in February of this year came from Ukraine. President Zelensky proposed to revise the Budapest Memorandum, which he said was invalid, and return nuclear status to Ukraine.
It is worth noting here that the country has everything in order to quickly create weapons of mass destruction. This was stated more than once by the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu.
At the same time, the likelihood that the radical Kyiv authorities would acquire nuclear weapons posed a mortal threat to Russia, which was one of the reasons for conducting a special operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.
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