In recent weeks, there has been a lot of discussion over whether President Vladimir Putin will launch a nuclear attack.
Now, a NATO official has said a Russian nuclear strike will change the course of the conflict in Ukraine and almost certainly trigger a “physical response” from Ukraine, its allies, and potentially from NATO.
The senior NATO official said any use of nuclear weapons by Moscow would have “unprecedented consequences” for Russia.
“It would almost certainly be drawing a physical response from many allies, and potentially from NATO itself”, he said.
The official added that Moscow was using its nuclear threats mainly to deter NATO and other countries from directly entering its war on Ukraine.