Kyiv: In the dramatic escalation of the east-west tension on the Russian invasion to Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear forces with high alert on Sundays in response to what NATO statement called The command means Putin wants Russian nuclear weapons ready to increase readiness to launch and increase the threat that Moscow’s invasion to Ukraine and the Western response to it can boil into nuclear warfare.
In the midst of alarming development, the office of the President of Ukraine said a delegation would meet with Russian officials when Moscow’s troops were getting closer to Kyiv Putin, in giving a nuclear warning direction, quoting not only the alleged statement by NATO members but harsh financial sanctions forced by the West against Russia, including Russian leaders themselves.
Speaking at a meeting with his high-ranking official, Putin told the Minister of Defense and the Chief of the Military General Staff to place nuclear deterrent forces in the special regime of battle tasks. Western countries not only take acts that are not friendly to our country in the economic field, but high-ranking officials from leading NATO members make an aggressive statement about our country, Putin said in television comments.
Putin threatened the days before the Russian invasion to avenge roughly against countries that intervened directly in conflict in Ukraine, and he specifically lifted the specter of his nuclear status as nuclear power. AP.