Putin Warns About Mounting Risk of Nuclear Conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on Oct. 19, 2022. Sergei Ilyin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that the threat of nuclear war is “increasing,” following months of steadily escalating rhetoric between Moscow and Washington.

“This risk [of nuclear conflict] is increasing,” Putin said at a Dec. 7 meeting in Moscow of Russia’s Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.