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DIRECT. War in Ukraine: Joe Biden evokes a risk of "apocalypse" after Russia's threats to use nuclear weapons

2022-10-07T04:32:54.579Z


Ukraine has taken over 500 km² in two weeks in the Kherson region, in the south of the country, announced its president Volodymyr Zelensky. He


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What exit door?

Joe Biden also said he wondered about a way out for his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

"How can he get out of this?"

How can he position himself so that he neither loses face nor loses a significant portion of his power in Russia?

questioned the American president during a fundraiser in New York.

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Risk of "apocalypse"

US President Joe Biden warned Thursday of the risk of an "apocalypse", for the first time since the Cold War, due to threats to use nuclear weapons by Russia.

Faced with stubborn Ukrainian resistance fueled by Western military aid, Vladimir Putin alluded to the atomic bomb in a televised speech on September 21.

He said he was ready to use "all means" in his arsenal against the West, which he accused of wanting to "destroy" Russia. "It's not a bluff", he assured.

"We have not faced the prospect of an apocalypse since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" in 1962, warned the American president on Thursday.

Vladimir Putin "is not joking when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or biological or chemical weapons, because his army, one could say, is very inefficient", still judged the American president.

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Two Russians flee to Alaska and seek asylum in the United States

"Two Russian citizens arrived on a beach near Gambell", a village on the American island of St. Lawrence, located in the Bering Sea, about 65 kilometers from the Russian coast, announced Alaska senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan.

They applied for asylum in the United States.

"A small boat occupied by two Russian citizens arrived on the coast of rural Alaska" on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Ministry of Homeland Security confirmed to AFP.

The case of these two Russians is being examined "in accordance with applicable American immigration laws", he said.

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Zelensky evokes NATO "preventive strikes": Moscow furious

“What should NATO do?

Eliminate the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons.

But above all, I appeal once again to the international community, as before February 24: preventive strikes, so that they know what will happen to them if they use them,” said the Ukrainian president on Thursday during a videoconference with the Australian think tank Lowy Institute.

A statement that Moscow castigated.

Volodymyr Zelensky's spokesman Serguii Nykyforov later explained that the remarks had to do with pre-emptive sanctions that might have been taken against Moscow before the February 24 offensive, and not pre-emptive military strikes. .

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Source: leparis

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