President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed skepticism about Russian President Vladimir Putin's ongoing nuclear threats since the full-scale war in an interview with Fox News, saying Putin “loves his life” and is therefore likely afraid of using nuclear weapons.

“Nobody knows what’s going on in his head,” Zelensky said in the interview posted on the president’s official YouTube channel on September 29. “He could use nuclear weapons against any country at any time – or not.” (But) I don't think he will do that.

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has repeatedly highlighted its threat Nuclear weapons arsenal to deter Western military support for Ukraine.

The Russian military will be able to “determine the conditions” for the use of nuclear weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Russian state television on September 29.

“(The military) closely monitors which weapons are used and how. They are the ones who document the direct participation of the countries of the collective West in (the war in) Ukraine, and they will not diminish their focus,” Peskov said.

Peskov further accused NATO member states of supporting Ukraine in its war effort against Russia, claiming that this “required adjustments to both nuclear doctrine and the fundamentals of state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence.”

In a speech to the UN General Assembly on September 28, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Ukraine and its Western allies should not try to “fight for victory with a nuclear power.”

Lavrov's comments come a few days after the Russian president Vladimir Putin proposed changes Moscow's nuclear doctrine at a meeting of the UN Security Council. Putin announced that Russia could respond to conventional missile attacks with nuclear weapons and indicated that Moscow would treat any attack supported by a nuclear-armed country as a coordinated attack.

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