BELGRADE, November 19. /TASS/. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has that it is time to speak about peace talks on Ukraine to prevent a potential nuclear conflict after the West authorized Ukraine use their weapons for strikes inside Russia.
"We are not ashamed to say that it is vital to begin to talks about peace and a ceasefire because this is leading us to a global catastrophe, which, regrettably I predicted. We have traveled nine out of ten steps leading to an utter catastrophe. Today, the Bryansk Region was attacked with American ATACMS missiles, strikes on Russian weapons and munitions depots continue," he said in an address to the nation.
He warned that further escalation is fraught with a "full-scale nuclear conflict."
According to Vucic, Russia’s leaders are not bluffing when they warned about a potential nuclear response to security threats to Russia. Those claiming that these are "mere threats with dummy weapons" are insane, he added.
The New York Times reported on November 17 that US President Joe Biden had allowed the use of US-supplied ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles for strikes inside Russia. This report was later confirmed by US Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian Nichols.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed that the US had lifted restrictions for US-supplied missiles to be used for strikes up to 300 kilometers inside Russia. The EU Foreign Affairs Council discussed the issue, he said, adding that the council failed to come to a consensus on this matter, with each country making a decision independently.
Meanwhile, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov recalled that Moscow’s updated nuclear doctrine allows the use of nuclear arms to retaliate in the case of Ukraine’s potential use of Western non-nuclear missiles against Russia. Earlier, he slammed the West’s decision as a "qualitatively new spiral" of escalation.