US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken criticized Russia for “nuclear blackmail”, European Pravda reports. He stated this at a conference on a revision of the agreement on non -proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Among the examples of threatening behavior, the Secretary of State mentioned the DPRK, Iran and Russia: “Russia began a war in Ukraine and resorts to irresponsible, dangerous threats of a nuclear button – its president warned that those who support Ukraine are quoted,“ take the risk of getting consequences … which you have never seen before in your history. “
“But even more critical – and this is directly related to the topic that collected us at this conference – that these actions also contradict the guarantees that it (Russia) provided to Ukraine in 1994 according to the so -called Budapest memorandum. What signal is this He directs any country in the world? Everyone can think that they need to have nuclear weapons in order to defend themselves and avoid aggression against their sovereignty and independence, ”said Blinken.