Putin Warns NATO Risks Nuclear War If Troops Are Sent to Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned NATO risks a nuclear conflict if it sends troops to aid Ukraine, ramping up pressure on Kyiv’s US and European allies just as his own forces go on the offensive.

“There’s been talk of sending NATO military forces to Ukraine,” Putin said Thursday in his annual address to the Federal Assembly of lawmakers and top officials. “We remember the fate of those who sent their contingents to our country before and this time the consequences for the potential interventionists will be far more tragic.”

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[winstonmcintosher]

1 leader from 1 country taking on NATO of 32 countries and still victorious 😂

[tashabenson]

As an American, I think putin is a great leader. I also agree that America is the aggressor.

[MoeGewily]

Russia has the right to defend itself.

[pleasemisguideme]

Very interesting how Pootin the clown always manages to speak to people that can’t speak back or challenge him.

[randy]

How do you know when Putin is lying? His lips are moving.

[fhende]

He was not being threatened by anyone and Ukraine was completely independent.

[allannesss]

Russia can’t even beat up their little brother next door! Stop with the treats … no one cares!

[JeffzPhenomkb]

There is the UN meeting on Ukraine Sovereignty.

[hocinimahmoud]

To the nato : mind your own bizness. Keep out of russian ukrainian conflict.

[balendas]

Ukraine was not part of NATO, It was main part of USSR.

[racingfox]

Is it me or are we all tiered of listening to his shit? 🙄🙄🙄

[liewcheng]

He is a coward. His assurances is only nuclear. Yak

[markom]

NATO, DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT THIS, GOT IT,

[RR-vqty]

100% true . The West not leaving the world in Peace.

[Joe-udoi]

Putin acting like he the only crazy white boy with nukes XD

[joshuapaul]

Macron is panicking. Zelenskyy regime is on its last legs and it will unlikely survive until the end of the year. Well, it's a quote from The Time article. Zelenskyy top advisers say about him: “He deludes himself, ” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that. It is immovable, verging on the messianic. ” One Austrian artist was in a similar state in 1945. Zelenskyy "achievements" to date: 500, 000 Ukrainians are dead, 3x that mangled and crippled for life, half of Ukraine's population is living as refugees scattered all over Europe and Russia right now, they're drafting women because they've run out of men to kidnap off the streets, gyms and public transport . NYT wrote about these mass kidnappings that were happening only in Zelenskyy Ukraine and Hitler's Germany in 1945 in an article ‘People Snatchers’.You can't rely on cannon fodder kidnapped off the streets, gyms and public transport to hold the ground. These people have zero motivation to die for Zelenskyy. They either surrender or run away at the first opportunity. Almost all trained and motivated Ukrainian soldiers are populating endless cemeteries across Ukraine (some were just cremated or left on the spot not to pay any compensation to their families).

[mysterbullbox]

We talk a lot about expansion of Natp, what about russia expansion with invading ukrain ?

[wickstar]

You know its a funny joke, when russia says somebody else is lying 😂

[crt]

They all look like they are watching the emperor with no clothes.

[drednaught]

The response should be sending troops. He risks nuclear war every moment he’s alive.