Putin is 'highly unlikely' to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine but continues to not act in a 'rational' way, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.
Putin is "unlikely" to turn to nuclear weapons.Vladimir Putin is "highly unlikely" to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine but he is not acting in a "rational" way, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has said.The Russian president has issued several stark warnings in recent months, saying he will use "all the means at our disposal" if his country is threatened.
He said Mr Putin "was given a very clear sense what is acceptable and unacceptable" in meetings with the Indian and Chinese leaderships. Asked if he could foresee Mr Putin being brought back into the international fold in the longer term, Mr Tugendhat said: "I'd be astonished. Mr Wallace is set to join a crisis meeting of northern European nations on Monday to discuss the security of pipelines and undersea cables.
"So I have to break my timetable tomorrow to meet 10 of the Nordic states about what we're going to do about it because the Nordic states and ourselves are deeply vulnerable to people doing things on our cables and our pipelines.
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