National security adviser Jake Sullivan is said to have spoken with senior Kremlin aides
The US national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has reportedly held talks with aides to Russia’s president,, with the aim of reducing the risk that the war in Ukraine could spill over or escalate into a nuclear conflict.
The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, declined to comment on the report at his daily briefing. “Once again I repeat that there are some truthful reports, but for the most part there are reports that are pure speculation,” he told reporters. Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War , a Washington DC-based thinktank, noted last week that Russia had notably softened its nuclear rhetoric since early November.
. Ukraine said it feared that Russia was preparing a false-flag nuclear attack which it would then blame on Kyiv. “We’re going to continue to communicate that any type of use of a weapon of that sort, or even the talk of the use of a weapon of that sort, is dangerous and irresponsible,” said Austin.
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