Western countries should ignore Russia’s nuclear threats, a top adviser to President Zelensky has said, after Moscow warned that the supply of more American and European weapons to Ukraine could trigger a nuclear conflict.
“Putin is not ready to press the red button,” Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser, told The Times. “Any use of nuclear weapons, even tactical ones, will lead to the inevitable death of most of the Russian political elite. They understand this very well.”
Podolyak said Russia had received a “clear warning” from other nuclear powers that it would face “immediate retribution” if it launched a nuclear strike on Ukraine or its western allies. He did not say which countries had issued the warning.
His comments came after Vyacheslav Volodin, the
