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US President Biden warns of "Armageddon"

US President Joe Biden sees the danger of a nuclear confrontation with catastrophic consequences after threats from the Kremlin as greater than in 60 years.

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US President Biden warns of "Armageddon"

US President Joe Biden sees the danger of a nuclear confrontation with catastrophic consequences after threats from the Kremlin as greater than in 60 years. The world has not faced the prospect of "Armageddon" since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, Biden said on Thursday evening at a performance in New York, according to journalists traveling with him.

He knows Russian President Vladimir Putin pretty well, Biden said. And the Kremlin boss does not joke when he talks about the potential use of tactical nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, as the Russian military is weak in the fighting in Ukraine. At the same time, he does not believe that it would be possible to simply use tactical nuclear weapons without this leading to "Armageddon", emphasized the US President. He and his associates looked for a diplomatic way out. “We are trying to figure out how Putin will get out of this situation. How can he do that without losing not only face, but also his power in Russia."

Russia recently annexed four occupied Ukrainian territories in violation of international law, and Putin, among others, announced that they would defend them with all available means. For some time now, the USA has been warning the Russian leadership in direct contacts that the use of tactical nuclear weapons would have serious consequences. The US President's Office has repeatedly said that despite Putin's "nuclear saber-rattling," there are no signs that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a dramatic culmination of the Cold War in October 1962, after the Soviet Union stationed medium-range missiles on the island. The two superpowers had come close to a nuclear war in the roughly two-week conflict, but eliminated the danger with negotiations.

During a visit to Ukraine, the chairwoman of the Defense Committee in the Bundestag, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP), renewed her call for battle tanks and armored personnel carriers to be delivered to the country. "The will to defend one's own country is unbroken," Strack-Zimmermann told the German Press Agency. “But Ukraine still needs support from us to get through the winter. This applies above all to ammunition, but also to the delivery of armored personnel carriers or battle tanks to push back Russian positions.”

Criticism of the military leadership is growing in Russia. The deputy head of the Russian-backed Kherson administration, Kiril Stremouzov, accused the "generals and ministers" in Moscow of not understanding the problems at the front. The presenter on Russian state television, Vladimir Solovyov, who otherwise always stands by the Russian government, asked on his live stream channel “Please explain to me what a brilliant idea the general staff has now. Do you think time is on our side?”.

A few weeks after the partial mobilization ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin, two Russians fled across the sea to Alaska in a small boat. They had applied for asylum in the United States, said two US state senators on Thursday. The two Russian citizens had arrived on Saint Lawrence Island in western Alaska, which is about 65 kilometers from the Russian coast.

A spokesman for the US Department of Homeland Security told AFP that the two Russians' cases were "under review under applicable US immigration laws." The incident shows that "the Russian people do not want to take part in Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine," said Senator Dan Sullivan.

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