In the Joe Biden administration took seriously Russia's threats about the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Ukraine.
This was reported by URA-Inform with reference to the Financial Times.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken noted that Washington was “very concerned” intelligence indicating that the Russian leader was indeed considering using nuclear weapons.
< p>«Even when the probability grows from 5 to 15 percent, when it comes to nuclear weapons, there is nothing more serious,» he said.
Despite the tense relations between the US and China over the war in Ukraine, the American diplomat stressed that the issue of the nuclear threat has become a rare point of contact between the two countries.
According to the head of the State Department, the critical moment could have come when the US shared information with Beijing that Putin planned to place nuclear weapons in space.
«We have reason to believe that China has engaged Russia and said, 'Don't do this,'” the US Secretary of State noted.
Blinken suggests that it was China's intervention that helped prevent this scenario from coming to fruition.
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