MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. Russian officials have never talked about the possible use of nuclear weapons, while the issue is being hyped up in the West, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
"We believe that such matters are unacceptable per se, to say nothing of such speculations," the Kremlin spokesman said, when asked if Russia viewed the use of nuclear weapons as a possible option.
Peskov stressed that "on Russia’s behalf, no one has ever speculated on the issue." "Speculations are made in European capitals and other places, stirring up tension in a potentially dangerous realm, where it is unacceptable," Peskov added.
He refrained from commenting on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s remark that Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin and US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns had discussed issues related to non-use of nuclear weapons at a meeting in Ankara earlier in the week. The Kremlin spokesman also declined to answer a question about whether Burns had handed any message to Russia apart from the nuclear weapons issue. "We don’t comment on the contents of the negotiations," Peskov stressed.