“Coming from the person who has the sole decision-making power regarding Russian nuclear weapons this will have to be taken seriously,” one analyst said.
Political analysts say the Kremlin may then view Ukrainian military action against these four areas as an attack against Russia itself.
"Coming from the person who has the sole decision-making power regarding Russian nuclear weapons this will have to be taken seriously," Baklitskiy said, noting that Putin's citation of"territorial integrity" was tricky to determine given that the Kremlin is planning to absorb four Ukrainian regions. Speaking at the U.N. headquarters in New York City on Wednesday, Biden accused the Kremlin of making"reckless" and"irresponsible" threats and said,"a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."told Reuters on Wednesday
Beatrice Fihn, Nobel laureate and executive director of the International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons, told CNBC that Putin's"incredibly dangerous and irresponsible" threats drastically increase the risk of escalation to a nuclear conflict. "Now, the real threat from Putin's speech was that he's prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend Russian territory, including the territory that they plan to annex," he told CNBC's"Street Signs Europe."
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