His comments on Thursday, in a state of the nation address, were the kind of remarks usually uttered by Dmitry Medvedev, a Putin ally who served as Russia's president from 2008-2012 and prime minister until becoming a top security official in 2020.
Putin has now upped the ante, responding to French President Emmanuel Macron's assumption on Monday that a deployment of European troops to Ukraine cannot be ruled out.
Everything that the West comes up with creates the real threat of a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons, and thus the destruction of civilisation, he said.
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