Putin Warns Of "Global Catastrophe" If NATO Clashes With Russian Army - NDTV

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Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Friday said that immoderate nonstop interaction oregon nonstop clash of NATO troops with the Russian service would pb to a "global catastrophe".

Addressing the quality league successful Kazakhstan's superior Astana, Putin said, "In immoderate case, nonstop contact, nonstop clash of (NATO) troops with the Russian service is simply a precise unsafe determination which could pb to a planetary catastrophe. I anticipation that those who are saying this are astute capable not to instrumentality specified a step."

Earlier, Putin had warned that helium would usage atomic weapons to support Russian territory aft annexing 4 regions of Ukraine past month, a determination which the UN this week condemned.

On Tuesday, Group of Seven (G7) nations warned that the usage of atomic weapons connected Ukraine volition person terrible consequences, according to a connection released by the White House.

Leaders of G7 states (the UK, Germany, Italy, Canada, the US, France, and Japan) said, "We deplore deliberate Russian escalator steps, including the partial mobilization of reservists and irresponsible atomic rhetoric, which is putting planetary bid and information astatine risk. We reaffirm that immoderate usage of chemical, biologic oregon atomic weapons by Russia would beryllium met with terrible consequences."

Earlier, US President Joe Biden spoke of atomic "Armageddon" successful a informing astir the escalation successful Russia's warfare successful Ukraine during a code connected Thursday.

Biden warned of the "assault" connected American institutions and talked of the menace of Russian President Vladimir Putin utilizing atomic weapons, astatine the New York location of James Murdoch, the lad of media baron Rupert Murdoch.

"We person not faced the imaginable of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban rocket crisis," Biden said successful New York City.

At a fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said Putin is "not joking erstwhile helium talks astir the usage of tactical atomic weapons oregon biologic oregon chemic weapons." This is because, Biden said, "his subject is -- you mightiness accidental -- importantly underperforming,"

"I'm trying to fig out, what is Putin's off-ramp?" Biden said. "Where does helium find a mode out? Where does helium find himself successful a presumption that helium does not lone suffer look but suffer important powerfulness wrong Russia?"

According to a excavation report, Biden told attendees astatine the event, "I don't deliberation determination is immoderate specified happening arsenic the quality to easy usage a tactical atomic limb and not extremity up with Armageddon."

Putin has renewed his atomic threats arsenic helium announced the annexation of Ukrainian territory, immoderate of which Russia doesn't control, and with the call-up of 300,000 reservists to reenforce his flagging invasion.

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