Published 13 October 2022 at 18.40
EU. The EU's top foreignrepresentative, Josep Borrell, said on Thursday that EU member states will attack Russia militarily if Moscow deploys nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine.
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– It must be made clear that any nuclear attack on Ukraine will bring a response. Not a nuclear response, but a military response so powerful that the Russian army would be annihilated, Borrell said.
The statement comes after Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Russia is “not bluffing” when it comes to what it says. be ready to defend its territory by all means.
The EU summit then replied that Western countries are also not bluffing when they warn of the consequences of a nuclear attack in Ukraine.
According to American diplomats, The White House has informed the Kremlin that the United States will destroy all non-nuclear Russian units in the Black Sea Fleet as well as in Ukraine, probably also in Crimea, if Russia uses nuclear weapons in the conflict.
Russia, for its part, has opened up to using nuclear weapons if Russian nuclear forces are attacked, if the existence of the Russian state is threatened or if Russia is attacked with nuclear weapons. So what the US and its allies are threatening is a conventional response designed to – hopefully – not trigger a nuclear war.