Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the threat of nuclear war is ‘rising’ as he refused to rule out using his country’s nuclear arsenal to strike first.
He said the nuclear weapons were a deterrent factor in the Kremlin’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and against perceived aggression from the west.
And he chillingly he went on to add that the threat of nuclear war was "rising" when speaking during the televised annual session of his human rights council.
