UN Secretary General António Guterres. File photoUN Sep 26 UN Secretary General António Guterres said the era of «nuclear blackmail» must end because the idea that a country could win a nuclear war is crazy.» Now, decades after the fall Berlin Wall, we hear again the rattling of nuclear sabers.Let me be clear.The era of nuclear blackmail must end.The idea that any country can fight and win a nuclear war is crazy.Any use of nuclear weapons will provoke a humanitarian Armageddon.We need to take a step ago,» Guterres said at a meeting marking the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.In Ukraine, they offered to take nuclear weapons from Israel to attack Russia. The UN Secretary General also called on all countries to use every opportunity for dialogue, diplomacy and negotiations to reduce tensions and eliminate the nuclear threat, and stated the need for a new vision of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. «I promise to work closely with everyone Member States to forge a new consensus on how we can collectively defuse these threats and achieve our common goal of peace… Without the elimination of nuclear weapons, there can be no peace. There can be no trust. And there can be no sustainable future.» — added the UN Secretary General. On September 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin made an appeal about the situation in Donbass and the course of the special operation. He stated that Moscow would support the decisions of the referendums in the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, and announced a partial mobilization in Russia, calling it a decision that is fully adequate to the current threats. According to him, «the West has crossed every line in its aggressive anti-Russian policy.» He noted that nuclear blackmail has also been used, and high-ranking representatives of NATO countries are saying about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia. He reminded the West that Russia is superior in a number of components to foreign military equipment, and warned those trying to blackmail Russia with nuclear weapons that «the wind rose could turn in their favor.» .jpg» />The Kremlin did not comment on Washington's statement on nuclear weapons
