Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has issued a threat over the potential of a Third World War saying that if it breaks out it will be “nuclear and destructive”.
Russian state-run news agency Tass reported Mr. Lavrov’s comments following an interview with Al Jazeera in which he said: “World War Three will be a devastating nuclear war.”
His comments come after he claimed Kyiv was seeking to obtain nuclear weapons.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that if a third World War were to take place, it would involve nuclear weapons and be destructive, the RIA news agency reported.
Lavrov has said that Russia, which launched what it calls a special military operation against Ukraine last week, would face a “real danger” if Kyiv acquired nuclear weapons.
A week after launching its invasion of Ukraine, Russia said its forces took control of the first sizable city on Wednesday, seizing Kherson, in the south, as fighting raged around the country and Western nations tightened an economic noose around Russia.
According to a Reuters report, Lavrov said Russia would face a “real danger” if Kyiv acquired nuclear weapons, adding it would not allow the latter to obtain the same. The Kremlin launched a military offensive in Ukraine last week and has been bombarding its cities amid widespread global condemnation and unprecedented sanctions by the West.
Lavrov has said that Russia, which launched what it calls a special military operation against Ukraine last week, would face a “real danger” if Kyiv acquired nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, thousands of people fleeing fierce fighting in Ukraine streamed across central European border crossings on Wednesday as Russian troops bombarded Ukrainian cities and looked poised to advance on the embattled capital, Kyiv.
Western nations raced to supply humanitarian and military aid while piling pressure on a Russian economy already reeling under sanctions, with US President Joe Biden warning Vladimir Putin that the Russian leader had “no idea what’s coming”.
With initial Russian failures to capture major cities, Western analysts have said Moscow appeared to shifted tactics, including devastating shelling of built-up areas to subdue stubborn resistance.
The United Nations has estimated that close to 700,000 people have fled to neighboring countries since the invasion began which the UN Refugee Agency has warned looks set to become Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century.
Nearly a week into the invasion, which Putin has called “a special military operation”, the flood of fleeing people showed few signs of easing.
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