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Update: Read Putin’s full threat to use nuclear weapons below. (emphasis ours)
“I want to stress it one more time, I’ve been saying it, but I’d very much want you to finally hear me, and to deliver it to your audience in print, TV and online.
Do you understand it or not, that if Ukraine joins NATO and attempts to bring Crimea back by military means, the European countries will be automatically pulled into a war conflict with Russia?
Of course the [military] potential of NATO and Russia are incomparable. We understand it.
But we also understand that Russia is one of the leading nuclear states, and by some modern components it even outperforms many.
There will be no winners. And you will be pulled into this conflict against your will.
You won’t even have time to blink your eye when you execute Article 5 (collective defence of NATO members)….
Mr President Macron, of course, doesn’t want this. And I don’t want it. And I don’t want it….which is why he is here, torturing me for six straight hours.”
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Original article below:
Vladimir Putin yesterday warned a nuclear war could break out if Ukraine joins NATO and accused the West of ‘complete disregard for our concerns’ hours after talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Moscow.
French officials are touring the talks as a success and claim that they have won concessions from Putin with a promise not to ‘escalate’ his troop build up.
But there was little sign of a climbdown from the Russian strongman this morning then he told a press conference that he wanted to ‘stress one more time’ that ‘if Ukraine joins NATO… the European countries will be automatically pulled into a war conflict with Russia’.
He said states would not ‘even have time to blink’ before invoking Article 5 of NATO which demands collective defense of members.
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His comments came after lengthy negotiations with Macron over the crisis in Ukraine, which Putin described as ‘constructive’ after using the familiar ‘ty’ form of ‘you’ to address the French President, seen as a sign of a good rapport between the leaders.
Macron, who will today hold talks in Kiev with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, later told journalists on a plane to Kiev that he and Putin had discussed the possible ‘Finlandisation’ of Ukraine – making the country neutral – so that ‘NATO can coexist with Russia’, according to Le Figaro.
That would be an advance on the current negotiating position of the US and NATO and could strain the already rocky transatlantic relationship.
Putin himself did not mention concessions when he spoke to the media after his six hours of talks with Macron in the Kremlin late yesterday and Moscow later denied the claims.
Putin has spent months massing some 135,000 troops backed by tanks and artillery on Ukraine’s borders, sparking repeated warnings from Washington that he is about to invade.