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Russia Did Not Threaten West With Nukes to Protect Crimea

Russia Did Not Threaten West With Nukes to Protect Crimea – Kremlin Two British newspapers claimed that Russia had intended to use nuclear force Russia did not threaten the West with nuclear weapons over the protection of the Crimean Peninsula, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday. “Of course not,” Peskov told journalists in response to a question of Russia’s apparent threat of using nuclear arms to protect Crimea. Earlier Thursday, two British newspapers, The Times and The Independent, claimed that Russia intended to use nuclear force to protect Crimea in March 2014 if NATO had moved additional forces to the… View Article