Regardless of nuclear threats, Estonia's Hanno Pevkur told Newsweek the West should not 'be worried about what the Kremlin will do.'
that NATO allies have channels by which to warn the Kremlin against nuclear weapon use and that Putin's repeated atomic saber-rattling should not undermine Western support for Kyiv.
Foreign officials have expressed concern that Kyiv's ambitions to retake the peninsula might prompt the Kremlin to escalate its war on Ukraine, though Western officials have also said there is no immediate indication that Putin is considering nuclear weapons.when asked about the Crimea issue. The peninsula's fate, he added, will be partially down to the Russian response to the coming counterattack.
NATO and the United States have channels through which they can warn the Russian president against nuclear use. National Security Adviserpreviously warned there would be"catastrophic" consequences for Moscow if it did resort to weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine.
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