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Go to the media bankThe US State Department building in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, Oct 7The United States will not be directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, State Department Deputy Spokesman Vedant Patel said.»President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have made it clear that no direct attacks on the United States or our allies, we will not be directly involved in this conflict, neither by sending American soldiers, nor by attacking Russian forces,» Patel said at a briefing, commenting on Volodymyr Zelensky's call to strike at the Russian Federation. Earlier, Zelensky, speaking at the Lowy Institute in Australia via video link, said that NATO should launch «preemptive» strikes on the Russian Federation, and not «wait for Russia's nuclear strikes.» Later, Zelensky's press secretary Sergei Nikiforov explained that he did not call for the use of nuclear weapons against the Russian Federation, but meant preventive sanctions. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov told RIA Novosti that such words are nothing more than a call to start 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. Zelensky's statements also angered the UN, where they were reminded of the unacceptability of even discussing a nuclear conflict. Biden condemned in the United States for words about the nuclear threat