Russia could use nuclear weapons if existence threatened: Kremlin

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov [File: Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said in an interview that Russia would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened.

Peskov’s comment came as CNN interviewer Christiane Amanpour pushed him on whether he was “convinced or confident” that President Vladimir Putin would not use the nuclear option in the Ukrainian context.