BATTLE FOR WORLD | February 22, 2020: As secret warfare continues among prominent state actors - from proxy wars..., it has now moved to bio-weapons, and the United States is attempting to simulate a limited nuclear strike on Russia.

"The United States continues a series of command-staff exercises and other drills involving the simulation of limited nuclear strikes, particularly - as it became known recently - on targets in Russia," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov on Saturday (Feb. 22), commenting on a recent military drill in the US, and further stating "We condemn such actions because they clearly show that Washington is determined to pursue the path of confrontation and keep lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons."

The senior Russia diplomat emphasized that "The US is embarking on a highly dangerous game instead of focusing on efforts to strengthen the arms control system that would also cover nuclear weapons."

"As we have stressed on numerous occasions, we would use nuclear weapons only in two exceptional cases - if Russia faces an attack with weapons of mass destruction or an aggression involving the large-scale use of conventional arms that puts the country’s existence at risk," note the Russian deputy foreign minister.

"This is why we would like to once again draw the attention of our American colleagues to the need to dot all the i’s in their defense planning and once again confirm the well-known formula that has been there since the Soviet era, which says that that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and it should never be unleashed."

And that "The United States’ reluctance to confirm the formula gives us more reason to believe that Washington [DC] continues drawing up scenarios involving the use of nuclear weapons," the Russian deputy foreign minister highlights.

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