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The realities underlying the menacing vocabulary are a grey area – it is far from certain that Putin would be prepared to use nuclear weapons

The United States has no new intelligence on Russia's nuclear threats, the White House said Friday, after President Joe Biden referenced a nuclear "Armageddon" on Thursday.

European leaders said Friday that President Joe Biden’s warning about “Armageddon” and Russia’s possible use of nuclear weapons shows the seriousness of the threat from Moscow’s escalation in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was referring to imposing sanctions on Russia when he suggested preventive strikes were necessary to preclude any use of nuclear weapons, his spokesperson said.

Vladimir Putin has warned that he will protect Russian territory by any means available to him

Russian president Vladimir Putin ‘not joking’ when he discusses using nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine

US President Joe Biden said Thursday the world is facing nuclear "Armageddon", warning that Vladimir Putin may use his atomic arsenal as Russian troops struggle against a Ukrainian counteroffensive. After Russia's invasion eight months ago, Putin has made thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons if he feels he has…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday celebrated turning 70 with a ceremony attended by Russian officials as US President Joe Biden said that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is at the highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Russian officials have spoken of the possibility of using tactical nuclear…

US president compares threat now with the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought world to brink of catastrophe in 1962.

As Biden warns world has not faced such high risk of ‘armageddon’ since ‘Kennedy and Cuban Missile Crisis’

US President Joe Biden said the threat of a nuclear Armageddon is at its highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, due to Vladimir Putin's sabre-rattling over Ukraine