Kremlin Tells U.S. To ‘Cool Down’ Over Putin’s Nuclear Warning

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. MAXIM SHEMETOV / EPA / POOL / TASS  

Moscow Times: Russia Tells U.S. to ‘Cool Down’ Over Putin’s Nuclear Warning 

Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on Monday that the United States should "cool down" after Washington warned Moscow against nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the state agency RIA Novosti reported. 

“We tell our American partners again and again, to use the most neutral word, that they should, as they say, cool down,” Sergei Ryabkov said, referring to the war in Ukraine. 

Washington shouldn’t escalate the conflict and “bring it closer to a dangerous line,” Ryabkov told state broadcaster Channel One. 

President Vladimir Putin made a thinly veiled threat to use nuclear arms in a speech Wednesday in which he announced the mobilization of reservists following Ukrainian gains on the ground.  

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Update: Russia tells US to ‘back off’ its ‘aggressive’ course (RT)  

WNU Editor: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov obviously does not watch certain Russian state television news shows .... Russian state TV tells viewers nuclear war is likely - 'Everyone dies' (Yahoo News).