Bales said, in an interview with Radio “Universum”: “Some have publicly announced several years ago that their goal is to weaken Russia, destroy it as a state, and divide it into several small states, and this may be a threat to the existence of the Russian Federation as a state.” He added: “We are the West.” “The United States of America, we have been constantly bombing for a long time, and they are keeping silent because they have no way to respond, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Libya, some Central American republics, but now we are threatening a country whose armed forces are better than ours.” And earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that nuclear war is the last resort, and talking about this topic in Western capitals is extremely irresponsible. The Kremlin has repeatedly stated that Moscow has no plans to use nuclear weapons, and Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed, He said that there could be no victors in a nuclear war, and stressed that critics in Russia should know that it has such weapons, but Moscow does not threaten anyone. Russian Foreign Ministry: The appearance of American nuclear weapons in northern European countries harms their security.