By Orowo Victoria Ojieh
Russia has warned the West that if they help defend Ukraine, then ‘World War 3’ will be inevitable. The severe warning came on the one month’s anniversary since the illegal invasion of Ukraine began by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Russian state TV has issued a frightening nuclear threat to the west if NATO puts peacekeepers into Ukraine, saying World War Three might be around the corner. The Trumpet gathered.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would only use nuclear weapons in the event of an “existential threat”, but also warned deploying Western peacekeepers to Ukraine would be “very rash and extremely dangerous”.
He said, “A special military operation is underway, and any possible contact between our military personnel and NATO military personnel could lead to quite understandable consequences that would be difficult to put right.”
But the new statement is taking a step further, warning the western world to not intervene militarily.
The state TV warned the alliance leaders, who met in Brussels on Thursday, against deploying any troops into Ukraine, even if they were there to maintain peace.
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TV presenter Vyacheslav Nikonov claimed that Russian truck drivers stuck on the border had spotted “an accumulation of American and Polish troops.
“As for me Poland strives not just to fulfil a peacekeeping mission, but to stake out the territories which they consider belonging to them historically.”
Olga Skabeyeva, host of state-owned Rossiya 1’s show 60 Minutes said: “If NATO members send peacekeepers to Ukraine, they should understand that this will represent a direct clash between the armed forces of Russia and NATO”.
“And how this collision will end is probably not worth explaining, this is called World War Three.”
Colonel Yury Knutov also aired his view in other Kremlin-controlled shows on Channel 1. He said, “If there are any sane people left in NATO, they will not approve a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine.
“Why? Because a collective NATO decision will mean a de facto declaration of war on Russia, this would be a Casus belli, meaning war between Russia and NATO.
“To win this war, whether we like it or not, we will have to use tactical nuclear weapons in the theatre of operations.
“This will then entail the use of powerful strategic nuclear weapons which means universal nuclear war.”
Russia’s state TV mouthpiece also warned the same outcome would come about if Poland acted independently, and not under the NATO umbrella.
