A mushroom cloud seconds after the detonation of the first atomic bomb. File photoMOSCOW, June 15Russia rejects the ideology of limited nuclear war, Western accusations of the contrary are groundless, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday. «We deny the very ideology of limited nuclear war, so characteristic of the Americans and their military planners,» Ryabkov said on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. 
SIPRI announced the highest risk of using nuclear weapons since the Cold War» They are trying to accuse us of allegedly playing some kind of rhetorical «game» on the subject of the hypothetical use of nuclear weapons. This is completely untrue. These are useless arguments, but we are used to the fact that the West has nothing left but distortions and fakes «, — said the deputy minister. Ryabkov suggested that, speaking of the need for a «strategic defeat of Russia» in Ukraine, the West, apparently, hopes that Moscow «will sign for the fallacy of its external political course, and by no means only in Ukraine.» «This is an anti-Russian paranoia that has taken possession of the minds of those who, by duty and by the level of their positions, should have a more responsible approach to international relations,» he concluded.
Ryabkov assessed the possibility of the West using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
