Washington – The United States does not see an increased risk of Russia using nuclear weapons over its war in Ukraine even as Moscow has recently been escalating its rhetoric, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday.
“We continue to monitor their nuclear capabilities every day the best we can. And we do not assess that there is a threat of the use of nuclear weapons and no threat to NATO territory,” the official said.
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