ANTALYA, March 10. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday he doesn’t think that a nuclear war is possible. This topic, in his words, has been raised only by the West in the context of the ongoing developments in Ukraine.
"I don’t want to believe it and I don’t believe in it. Let me draw your attention to the fact that the nuclear topic in the context of the situation in Ukraine in recent years, which has aggravated literally in recent months and weeks, has been raised within this discourse solely by Western representatives, first of all by NATO," he said on Thursday after talks with his Ukrainian and Turkish counterparts, Dmitry Kuleba and Mevlut Cavusoglu.
"I would like to recall that Mr. Stoltenberg (NATO secretary general - TASS), who, I think, demonstrated too much of independence and said without agreeing his words with all NATO members, as he should, that NATO wants, nuclear weapons will be deployed in the alliance’s Eastern European members," Lavrov said.
He also recalled French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian’s statement that Paris also possesses nuclear arms. "US President Joe Biden, when asked whether there was any alternative to these sanctions, said that the alternative is only a third world war. Their (NATO officials’ - TASS) subconscious thoughts keep surfacing now and then, while we have never said anything of the sort. Of course, we find it worrisome the West keeps getting back to this subject [the use of nuclear weapons and the risk of a third world war] in a Freudian manner again and again," he said.