Russia must take into account NATO nuclear capability: Putin tells state TV
The Hindu
Russian President Vladimir Putin the West wanted to liquidate Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on February 26 that Russia had no choice but to take into account the nuclear capabilities of NATO as the U.S.-led military alliance was seeking the defeat of Russia.
"In today's conditions, when all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?" Mr. Putin told Rossiya 1 state television, according to TASS.
The West, Mr. Putin said, wanted to liquidate Russia.
"They have one goal: to disband the former Soviet Union and its fundamental part - the Russian Federation," Mr. Putin said, according to TASS.
The West, he said, was an indirect accomplice to the "crimes" committed by Ukraine.
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