Washington has suggested that Beijing contacted Moscow to prevent the use of nuclear weapons

Washington has reasons to believe that the Chinese authorities contacted Russia in time with the aim of preventing the use of nuclear weapons by Moscow, said US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in an interview with the Financial Times.

Blinken, who will leave his post in the coming weeks, noted that the US was “very concerned” about the nuclear threat.
“Even if the probability goes from 5 to 15 percent, when it comes to nuclear weapons, there is nothing more serious,” the State Secretary emphasized.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Moscow does not intend to be the first to use nuclear weapons, stressing that resorting to such weapons will be the last measure of security. At the same time, the head of the Kremlin approved a new nuclear doctrine last November, which specifically allows Moscow to use nuclear weapons not only in the event of a threat to Russia’s existence, but also in case of any large-scale, even non-nuclear, attack threatening its territorial integrity.