Russia speaks for the first time of a possible “nuclear” and “destructive” World War III

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned three words for the first time today that have set off alarm bells. “Third World war”. Lavrov has done it conditionally, as a possibility that it will occur, something that according to the minister would involve “nuclear weapons” and “would be destructive”, reports the RIA news agency.

Lavrov has also warned that Russia will not allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons. Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine last week in what he called a special operation to demilitarize and “denazify” the country, a justification that Kiev and the West have called fallacious and propagandistic.

While, Kiev and Kharkov are already the scene of war in Europe. The two most important cities in Ukraine have suffered continuous bombardment from the Kremlin since Russian troops increased their offensive on Tuesday to besiege these two enclaves.

Early this Tuesday, a barrage of missiles hit various buildings in Kharkov and the National University. The city, completely devastated after two days of non-stop attacks, looks very different today than it did just a week ago.

this very morning residential neighborhoods of Kiev have also been bombed, as reported by the Ukrainian authorities. Specifically, the areas of Rusanivka, a few kilometers from the central Maidán square, in Boiarka and also in Zhuliany.

In addition, the impact of a projectile against the communications tower of the capital caused the death of 5 people and caused commotion in a population that resisted after more than a week of war in which the Russian troops had failed when trying to besiege it.

The US remains vigilant

Meanwhile, the United States, which has closed its airspace to Russian airlines, remains at the same level of alert although monitoring Russian movements. The American President, Joe Biden has promised that he will make Vladimir Putin “pay a price” for the invasion of Ukraineand that it will manage to “save democracy” from the challenges it faces inside and outside the United States.

The war in Ukraine was the focus of part of Biden’s first State of the Union address, in which he announced his decision to close airspace to Russia, as Canada and the European Union have already done. “Putin is more isolated than ever from the rest of the world,” the president proclaimed before lawmakers from both houses of the US Congress.

Furthermore, Biden insisted that his measures and those of US allies will succeed in “suffocating the Russian economy”and announced that the US Department of Justice will take more measures to corral the oligarchs that allow the Kremlin to finance its war. “We will find and confiscate their yachts, their luxury apartments, their private planes,” he stressed, addressing the Russian oligarchs.