Ukraine's foreign affairs minister said Russia's president wasn't bluffing about using nuclear weapons against the West.
of Russians to fight in Ukraine and also issued new warnings to the West and Ukraine. He reiterated a threat to consider using nuclear weapons, adding that he was not bluffing.was worried about what Putin said. The minister admitted that it was normal to feel afraid after such a threat but pointed out that Ukraine was fighting Russia for its freedom and questioned Putin's bluffing denial.
"I think that when somebody says, 'I'm not bluffing,' in most of the cases he actually is," Kuleba said."If you are so confident in yourself, why should you be repeating all of this? Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Kremlin Tuesday. At right, Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba talks to the media in Brussels on May 16. Kuleba spoke to Stephen Colbert about Putin and the Russian leader's threats on Wednesday.The minister continued:"But this doesn't mean we shouldn't take him seriously, and I want to say two things. Firstly, we as a nation are ready to face any challenge that we have to in order to prevail.
Kuleba also spoke about actions Zelensky took in the early days of the war to inspire Ukrainians in their resistance to the Russians."Millions of Ukrainians, they abandoned fear. This is really the only way for you to win. You have to be reasonable, but you have to abandon fear," he said. He went on:"When my president said, 'I'm not leaving Kyiv, I am staying here, I will stay with the nation, with the soldiers,' that was the moment when we as a nation put fear aside and said we are going to fight."Newsweek
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