U.K warns Russia of consequences for any nuclear weapon use
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British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly attends the annual Conservative Party conference, in Birmingham, Britain, October 2, 2022. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
Britain's foreign minister
James Cleverly on Tuesday said Russian President Vladimir Putin's sequence of
strategic errors must stop and that any use of nuclear weapons would lead to
consequences.
Putin has escalated
its seven-month war in Ukraine with military mobilisation and warnings of
nuclear weapons use.
Asked how Britain
would respond to the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia, Cleverly told a
fringe event at the Conservative Party conference that he couldn't go into
detail but there would be a response.
"It would
inevitably be the case that the use of nuclear weapons by any country anywhere
in the world would not go without a response," he said.
"I'm not going to
discuss the nature of the threshold."
Earlier Kremlin
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow did not want to take part in "nuclear
rhetoric" spread by the West after Britain's Times newspaper reported
that NATO had warned members Putin might test an atomic weapon on Ukraine's
border.
Cleverly said
strategic errors by Putin had damaged Russia and left him increasingly isolated
globally.
"We need to make
it very clear that his sequence of strategic errors has got to stop," he
said. "We will continue to support Ukrainians in the defence of their
homeland, and stand up for the international rules and norms".
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