MOSCOW, April 29. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russia isn’t toying with the idea of a nuclear war and brought up a statement by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky that Ukraine could think about possessing nuclear weapons.

Moscow has promised to all nuclear countries to never start a nuclear war, Lavrov said. In June 2021, Russia and the US adopted a declaration stating that a nuclear war is unacceptable. Then, in January all five nuclear states, at the request of Russia, issued a similar statement.

"We are not ‘playing’ with nuclear war," he said in an interview with the Al Arabiya television channel. "In January of this year, Vladimir Zelensky again mobilized Western support against Russia. In his Russophobic rhetoric, he stated that no one is going to change the policy in matters of the Russian language and the Russian media, and will not persecute neo-Nazi battalions that are supported by the state and openly wear the swastika and the insignia of the Waffen-SS divisions."

"Then he said that Ukraine made a mistake when it refused the status of a nuclear power, and they may again consider the possession of nuclear weapons," Lavrov said.

The minister said that recently the Prime Minister of Poland said that Warsaw would welcome it if American nuclear weapons were transferred from Germany to Poland. "We have never played with such dangerous things. That's what I was talking about," Lavrov said. "We should all adhere to the statements about the inadmissibility of nuclear war that were made by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council."

"To make sure this is so, the West must discipline our Ukrainian and Polish colleagues who they don't see any danger in juggling such dangerous words," the minister continued.