'The media should be professional enough not to ask such questions,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti.
But on Thursday, Peskov evaded a question about the prospect of a nuclear war, telling RIA Novosti:"I believe that the media should be professional enough not to ask such questions, and those who are being interviewed should be wise enough not to answer such questions."
The specter of nuclear weapons has hung over the war in Ukraine ever since Putin ordered his nuclear forces to a higher state of alert on February 27, three days after the start of the invasion. A Russian nuclear missile rolls along Red Square during the military parade marking the 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat, on June 24, 2020 in Moscow, Russia. The Kremlin has said that the U.S. needed to resume talks with Russia over nuclear non proliferation.In April, Russia carried out its first successful test of the Sarmat, a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile Putin said would make adversaries"think twice.
Experts have cast doubt on whether Putin would use nuclear weapons if the war turned against him. However, the Arms Control Association executive director, Daryl Kimball,in April, that the Ukraine war meant the risk of nuclear weapons being used, even if it were unlikely, was still"higher than it has been since the end of the Cold War."
Peskov also said that it was urgent that Russia and the U.S. resume talks on the New START weapons treaty, which limits the strategic warheads and launchers in the world's two top nuclear powers and allows them to inspect one another's stockpiles.
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