USASIA Perth Centre CEO Gordon Flake says Russia suggesting there’ll be a nuclear response to the freeing of any Ukrainian land they’ve claimed is “nuclear blackmail” in the “worst possible framing”.
“That’s something again that not just President Biden, but speaker after speaker in the United Nations has spoken against, and I think in reaction to that
there’s a broad sense that obviously … these Russian assertions, these claims are illegitimate in the international community,” Mr Flake told Sky News Australia.
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