An adviser to the Ukrainian president used this year’s Nobel Peace Prize award to warn the Russians. The Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, striving for a world without nuclear weapons, became the recipient of the award, and according to Mykhailo Podoljak, it is an informal warning to Russia.
“Be careful or you will personally face serious consequences,” Podolyak stated towards the Russians. | Video: Reuters
“Be careful, or you will personally face serious consequences,” Podoljak stated towards the Russians. He was responding to the dangerous rhetoric of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I think that this year’s Nobel Peace Prize clearly confirms the kind of world we live in. And it clearly symbolizes an informal warning to the Russian Federation, which, as always, actively uses nuclear blackmail to achieve its international political goals,” added the adviser to the Ukrainian president.
After launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin repeatedly warns the West of possible nuclear consequences. In September, he said Russia could use nuclear weapons if hit by conventional missiles. Moscow will also consider any attack on Russia backed by a nuclear power as a joint attack.
“In my opinion, the Nobel Committee points to the main problem of today, one of the main problems, which is connected with the Russian Federation. No nuclear blackmail, not even the slightest idea that it would be possible to use nuclear weapons, should fall,” said Podoljak about the situation.
“We plan to further develop the nuclear triad as a guarantee of strategic deterrence and maintaining the balance of power in the world,” Putin claims. Without naming specific countries, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Joergen Watne Frydnes, warned that nuclear countries should not consider using atomic weapons. When asked whether the context of Russian aggression in Ukraine, when Moscow is increasingly threatening nuclear weapons, was important for the selection of the laureate, Frydnes described the development as an “alarming danger to humanity”.
“The taboo on the use of nuclear weapons is under pressure,” he said last week after the award. The Nihon Hidankyō organization, which has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, unites people who survived the nuclear attacks on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. According to the committee, they are trying to prevent a threat that can destroy the entire world. Its head, Toshiyuki Mimaki, responded by saying that achieving the complete elimination of nuclear weapons is possible.
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