President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 6Vladimir Zelensky's spokesman Sergei Nikiforov explained his words about a «preemptive» strike against Russia. Earlier, Zelensky, speaking at the Lowy Institute in Australia via video link, said that NATO should strike 
Guterres' office commented on Zelensky's words about a nuclear strike on Russia Secretary, Zelensky did not call for the use of nuclear weapons against the Russian Federation. «Colleagues, you have gone a little far with your nuclear hysteria and now you hear nuclear strikes where there are none,» Nikiforov said. Let me remind you that the only measures that were discussed at that time were preventive sanctions,» Nikiforov is quoted by the Strana edition. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, in connection with Zelensky's statement, told RIA Novosti earlier that his words were nothing more than as a call for the start of a world war, the responsibility for this should be borne by the United States and Great Britain, which actually direct the actions of Kyiv. He also stressed that all countries of the world should pay attention to Zelensky's words. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted that the West was inciting a nuclear war, and the «puppet and unbalanced» Zelensky «turned into a monster whose hands could destroy the planet.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Europe held hostage
