John Kirby takes the Kremlin's serious statements.
The strategic coordinator of the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, said that if the Russian Federation uses nuclear weapons, it will face serious consequences.Kirby said this in an interview with ABC News.
Kirby called Putin's latest nuclear threats “typical” but he says the US and its allies still take the rhetoric “seriously”.
“It's irresponsible rhetoric for a nuclear state, but it's not atypical compared to what he has been saying for the past seven months. We take this seriously. We are monitoring their strategic position as much as we can so that we can change it if necessary. ashu. We haven't seen any indication that this is needed right now,” Kirby said.
And if Russia did use nuclear weapons, Kirby said, “there would be serious consequences.”
The Kremlin is going to annex the occupied territories of Ukraine and will try to politically legitimize this through bogus referendums in the coming days. According to Kirby, the US will not consider Ukrainian regions to be Russian.
“We will continue to support Ukraine with security systems and financial , as the American president said, as long as it takes,” he added.
Kirby added that the occupied territories are Ukraine.
“It doesn't matter what fake referendum they arrange and what they will vote, it's still Ukrainian territory,” Kirby emphasized.
