The Kremlin said Wednesday that the special hotline that exists to defuse crises between the Kremlin and the White Housewhile nuclear risks increase in a context of increased tensions between Russia y West in decades.
The president of Russia, Vladimir Putinon Tuesday lowered the threshold for a nuclear attack in response to a broader range of conventional attacks, days after it was reported that Washington had allowed Ukraine use American-made weapons to attack inside Russia.
Ukraine used American missiles ATACMS to attack Russian territory on Tuesday, taking advantage of the permission recently granted by the outgoing Government of Joe Biden on the 1,000th day of the war.
The call direct line between Moscow and Washington was established in 1963 to reduce the misperceptions that fueled the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, by allowing direct communication between the leaders of USA y Russia.
“We have a special secure line for communication between the two presidents, Russia y USA. What’s more, even for video communication,” said the spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitri Peskovto the state news agency TASS. But when asked if this channel is currently in use, he replied: “No”.
Moscow said that the use of ATACMSthe longest range missiles that Washington has supplied to Ukraine Until now, it was a clear sign that West I wanted to intensify the conflict.
The war, which Russia began with a large-scale invasion in February 2022, has turned hundreds of Ukrainian cities and townshas displaced millions of people and killed thousands of civilians, the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenskyhad been begging for a long time Washington and his allies of the I’LL TAKE that would allow the use of long-range weapons, claiming that they are necessary to destroy military and transportation infrastructure key to the war efforts of Russia.
Moscow has said that these weapons cannot be launched without direct operational support from USA and that its use would make Washington into a direct combatant in the war, which would provoke Russian retaliation.
Russian diplomats They claim that the current crisis between Moscow y Washington is comparable to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962when the two superpowers of the Cold war were closer to an intentional nuclear war, and that West you make a mistake if you think that Russia will go back on Ukraine.
The Kremlin said that Russia considered nuclear weapons a means of deterrence and that its updated nuclear doctrine was intended to make clear to potential enemies the inevitability of retaliation if they attacked Russia.
Peskov told the news agency RIA on Wednesday that West was trying to inflict strategic defeat on Russia by allowing Kiev will hit deep in Russia with American-made weapons.
“And, of course, they use Ukraine as a tool in their hands to achieve these objectives,” he said Peskov.
(Reuters)
