Biden: Putin's talk of possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine is 'dangerous'

FILE PHOTO - U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on CHIPS manufacturing, at Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York, U.S., October 27, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

U.S. President Joe Biden expressed skepticism on Thursday about Russian President Vladimir Putin's comment that he had no intention of using a nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

Putin, in a speech earlier in the day, played down a nuclear standoff with the West, insisting Russia had not threatened to use nuclear weapons and had only responded to nuclear "blackmail" from Western leaders.