China’s Concern: “Gasoline on Fire”
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin yesterday condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to formalize the formal annexation of four Ukrainian regions to the Russian Federation, and warned that the president could follow up on his threats of nuclear retaliation without no restraint on the part of his collaborators. “To be clear, he is the one making the decisions. A single man. There is no supervision over Putin,” the secretary said in an interview with CNN. “Just as he made the irresponsible decision to invade Ukraine, he could take another one. At the moment, however, I see nothing that would lead me to believe that he may have made such a decision,” Austin said. possibility that Russia could resort to nuclear weapons. The secretary said he had not spoken to the Russian defense minister Sergej Shoigu in recent days, but confirmed that the United States would respond decisively to the possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia on the Ukrainian war theater.
Austin: Putin could use atomic bomb but no sign of decision – “To be clear, who decides is one. There are no controls on Putin. As he made the irresponsible decision to invade Ukraine, he could take another one. Right now, however, I see nothing now that he makes me believe that he has already made such a decision “: Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in an interview with CNN, commenting on the Russian president’s nuclear threats. Austin condemned the “illegal annexation of Ukrainian territory” and called Putin’s threats to use “every means available” an “irresponsible statement … this nuclear saber clink is not the kind of thing we would expect to hear from leaders of large countries with atomic capabilities “.
Ukraine, China: nuclear threat only adds fuel to fire – Waving the threat of nuclear war “will not help defuse the situation in Ukraine, it will only add fuel to the fire”. This is what was declared to Ria Novosti by the press service of the Chinese Foreign Ministry. “Beijing invites all parties to show restraint and support diplomatic efforts for an agreement”, it reads again.
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