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Former German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the world to take Russian President Vladimir Putin's words about nuclear weapons seriously.
“The decision not to reject them outright as a bluff is by no means a sign of weakness!”
It is a sign of political wisdom, the ex-chancellor added.
In his speech on mobilization on September 21, Putin said that a number of NATO officials do not rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons. against Russia. He reminded that Moscow “also has various means of destruction” and in the presence of a threat to the “territorial integrity of our country” “all the means at our disposal will be used “unconditionally, this is not a bluff.”
On Tuesday 27 In September, the former president and prime minister, deputy head of the Security Council on nuclear weapons, Dmitry Medvedev, shared his thoughts on the Russian social network. In particular, he expressed the opinion that the West “will swallow the use of any weapon in the current conflict.”