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President Joe Biden said Thursday the risk of atomic "Armageddon" is the highest it has been for a considerable length of time after Russian President Vladimir Putin reestablished his threatening messages as his military retreats in Ukraine.
In remarks at a reception for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Biden said it was the first time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis that there has been a "direct danger" of atomic weapons' being utilized, "if, truth be told, things continue down the way they are going."
"We have not confronted the possibility of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis," he said, offering his bluntest comments about the utilization of atomic weapons since Russia invaded Ukraine in February.
Toward the end of last month, Putin reestablished atomic dangers he made at the beginning of Russia's invasion.
"If the territorial integrity of our nation is compromised, we will certainly utilize every one of the means at our disposal to safeguard Russia and our kin," the Russian chief said in a televised national location.
"I'm not bluffing," he added.
Putin issued his warning as he reported the call-up of 300,000 Russian soldiers after his military powers experienced serious difficulties on the battlefield in Ukraine.
This week Kyiv's soldiers were pushing forward in the nation's east and south, threatening a major new leap forward and forcing Putin's soldiers to withdraw from territory he claimed to have added in a fabulous ceremony last week. With pressure growing over those losses and the chaotic mobilization at home, fears have intensified that he may be willing to raise further instead of acknowledge rout.