Nobody in Russia thinks about using nuclear weapons. As reported with great evidence on the TASS website, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said so in an interview with PBS. According to Peskov, “no one even thought of resorting to such devastating bombs.” Putin’s spokesman also returned to discuss recent remarks by US President Joe Biden, which he described as “alarming”. “First of all said Peskov it is a personal insult, and it is hard to imagine that a personal insult can find a place in the rhetoric of a political leader, and especially the political leader of the largest country in the world, the United States. So we’re very sorry,” he said. “His statement that Putin should not stay in power in Russia is obviously unacceptable. It is not up to the President of the United States to decide who should become President of Russia, it is the Russian people who are called upon to decide during the elections ».
On the issue of sanctions, Peskov explained that “we all have to adapt to new conditions, and unfortunately these conditions are quite hostile” because “we have entered the phase of an allout war. The countries of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia are effectively at war against us in trade, in the economy, confiscation of our property, confiscation of our funds, freezing of our financial statements. And we have to adapt to the new reality,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Peskov also announced that Russia will not supply natural gas abroad for free: “No gas without payment, we have absolutely no intention of being charitable and supplying gas to Western Europe for free”. Peskov has indicated that Moscow does not see Europe’s refusal to buy gas from Russia as a problem: Western Europe’s refusal to pay for gas in rubles will not cause turmoil.
Referring to the ongoing tensions between Russia and NATO, Peskov recalled that “for a number of decades we have been telling the West that we feared NATO was moving east and its military infrastructure was moving closer to our borders. Please, we begged, mind, don’t corner us. But it didn’t happen. We then warned Western diplomacy of our concerns about the coup in Ukraine, “but instead of receiving assurances on the matter, Peskov instead highlights the ‘guarantees’ given to the new political leadership by France, Poland and Germany.” “Then continues the Kremlin spokesman we said we asked to be heard about our fears that Ukraine would join NATO because such a possibility would endanger us and destroy the mutual deterrence balance in Europe. Again, there was no reaction, just as there was no reaction to our request to have an equal relationship with the West. Russia has no intention of invading or attacking NATO territory. If they don’t make us do it, we don’t think about it. And we don’t want to think about it ».
