Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky suggesting NATO should launch preventive strikes on Russia confirmed the need for what it calls its “special operation” in Ukraine.
“By doing so, (he) essentially presented the world with further evidence
of the threats posed by the Kyiv regime,” Lavrov said. “This is why a
special military operation was launched to neutralize them.”
In a discussion with an Australian think tank on Thursday, Zelensky said
he believed strikes were necessary to preclude any use of nuclear
weapons.
He did not go into detail about what kind of strikes he meant, and made no reference to any need for nuclear strikes.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced Zelensky’s comments as “an
appeal to start yet another world war with unpredictable, monstrous
consequences,” according to RIA news agency.
Russia launched its “special military operation” to demilitarize and
“denazify” its neighbor. Ukraine and Western nations have dismissed this
as a baseless pretext for invasion.
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