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Russia’s Lavrov vows ‘full protection’ for any annexed territory
Ukraine says Lavrov’s comments raise the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons, condemns them as ‘totally unacceptable’.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says regions of Ukraine where widely-criticised referendums are being held will be under Moscow’s “full protection” if they are annexed, raising the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons if Kyiv tries to retake those territories.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/25/russias-lavrov-vows-full-protection-for-any-annexed-territory
Nuclear summit in Washington 'most unarguable' - Medvedev
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with Russian national daily Izvestia described the nuclear security summit hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington as the "most unarguable
Medvedev, who took part in the summit, said the summit was "unarguable" because its participants had a common view of the issues that had been discussed during the talks.
"The issues that united us were so obvious - nuclear terrorism, cooperation in countering countries that are trying to obtain [nuclear] technologies by illegal means - all these topics are equally understood. There was no polemic," Medvedev told Izvestia's correspondent Melor Sturua, described by the New York Times as "the most perceptive of the former Soviet pundits."