JAKARTA, Oct 6 – Novosti. The collective West has already exhausted the arguments for discrediting Russia and started talking about the nuclear “threat” emanating from it, which is another lie, Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matviyenko told reporters.
“Since the collective West has already exhausted the arguments to discredit Russia, to inflame such ardent Russophobia around Russia, to scare the world with such a terrible Russia, they started to launch this “cartoon”, sorry for the slang, about the nuclear threat to Russia. This is another lie, another fake” , – Matvienko said in response to a request to comment on Western media statements that Russia could allegedly use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine .
She pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin had repeatedly spoken about this and added that Russia “never had any plans to threaten someone with nuclear weapons,” which is considered only as a factor of deterrence and protection in case of aggression.