Putin says Russia would use all weapons at its disposal if Ukraine got nuclear weapons

– President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia will use all weapons at its disposal against Ukraine if Kiev acquires nuclear weapons. The New York Times reported last week that some unnamed Western officials had suggested that US President Joe Biden could provide nuclear weapons to Ukraine. “If the country we’re basically at war with now becomes a nuclear power, what do we do?”? In this case, we will all use, I want to emphasize that Russia has all the means of destruction: we will monitor their every move,” Putin said at a press conference in Astana, Kazakhstan. Duran said. Then that would mean violating all the non-proliferation commitments they made.” Putin also said that it is practically i, which is a conventional bomb loaded with radioactive material to spread contamination. In that case, Russia will respond appropriately, he said. Russia has repeatedly said without providing evidence that Ukraine could use such a device. Ukraine inherited nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union after its 1991 collapse, but gave them up under a 1994 accord. , the Budapest Memorandum, in return for security assurances from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom.impossible for Ukraine to develop nuclear weapons. weapon, but that it might be able to make some sort of “dirty bomb”.