Russia believes the risks of nuclear war should be kept to a minimum and that any armed conflict between nucle
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- Russia believes the risks of nuclear war should be kept to a minimum and that any armed conflict between nuclear powers should be prevented, TASS news agency quoted a foreign ministry official as saying on Saturday.
- Vladimir Yermakov, the foreign ministry’s head of nuclear non-proliferation, said all nuclear powers must stick to the logic laid out in official documents aimed at preventing nuclear war.
- He said Russia “clearly follows this understanding” of the rules, he was quoted as saying by TASS.
- The Tass news agency also cited Vladimir Putin’s comments by his country’s foreign ministry as a reason for the delay in deploying nuclear weapons.