Putin warns West of risk of nuclear war, says Moscow can strike Western targetsPresident Vladimir Putin told Western countries on Thursday they risked provoking a nuclear war if they sent troops to fight in Ukraine, warning that Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in the West. The war in Ukraine has triggered the worst crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilisation. MORE TROOPS FOR WESTERN BORDERRussian forces now had the initiative on the battlefield in Ukraine and were advancing in several places, Putin said. “Recently there have been more and more unsubstantiated accusations against Russia, for example that we are allegedly going to deploy nuclear weapons in space.
