Putin's threat to deploy nuclear weapons to Western countries

International Desk: Russian President Vladimir Putin is angry that Ukraine has been allowed to attack inside Russia with long-range Western weapons. In response, he threatened to deploy conventional missiles near the United States and its European allies. The Russian President gave such a warning in an interview on Wednesday.

At that time he also said that Russia will never use nuclear weapons - the idea is wrong. Reuters news. Putin sat in a face-to-face meeting with senior editors of international media for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine. At the time, he said, Russia would never use nuclear weapons - the idea of ​​the West is wrong.

He warned that Moscow will not back down from using nuclear weapons if necessary. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called for Ukraine to allow Western weapons to be used to strike Russian territory.

When asked about this during the meeting, Putin was talking about the difference between different missiles. But he also warned that allowing Kiev to launch more powerful weapons inside Russia is pushing the West toward a full-scale war with Russia.