Nobel prize-winning journalist warns nuclear war is being sold to the Russian public ‘like pet food’

Novaya Gazeta newspaper editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov talks to the media in front of the Novaya Gazeta building in Moscow, Russia after winning the Nobel Peace Prize on October 08, 2021.

The world has entered a new era where nuclear war is once again a genuine threat, according to Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov.

In an interview with the BBC published on Thursday, Muratov said he was anxious about just how far Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to go in his standoff with the West over Ukraine.