Putin accuses US, allies of trying to dominate the world, denies intent to use nuclear weapons: Live Ukraine updates

Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, lashed out at the United States and its allies on Thursday in a speech that was widely viewed, calling their game of global dominance "dangerous, brutal, and nasty." Putin appeared to downplay Russia's losses in its war with Ukraine and claimed that the battle he started was inevitable after years of rising tension when he spoke at a meeting of international policy specialists the day after supervising a nuclear training exercise. Putin stated he had no intention of launching a nuclear bomb in Ukraine despite making numerous subtly veiled references to Russia's nuclear weapons recently: "There is no value in that, neither political, nor military," he added.

The world order that the West imposed after the fall of the Soviet Union, according to a transcript by The Telegraph, is likewise "coming to an end," according to the Russian leader.

Putin asserted that "humanity now faces a choice: accumulate a load of problems that will inevitably crush us all or try to find solutions that may not be ideal but working and could make the world more stable and secure." He called the current decade among the most "dangerous" and "unpredictable" since World War II.

Putin's speech at the Valdai Club, a Moscow think tank and discussion forum, came after what Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu described as a successful training exercise by the nation's Strategic Deterrence Forces on Wednesday. The exercise was designed to simulate launching a "massive nuclear strike" in response to a potential nuclear attack on Russia.

The idea that Ukraine intends to use a "dirty bomb," which combines explosives and radioactive material to cause panic but not necessarily harm, has recently been promoted by Russian officials. While the United States and its allies have dismissed the claim as false, Ukraine has charged that Russia is ready to detonate such a device.

According to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the Pentagon has not observed any indications that either side plans to use a dirty bomb as of Thursday.

President claims that launching nuclear weapons would be a grave error, BIDEN WARNS MOSCOW

On October 27, 2022, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, a resident takes salvageable items from a building that was devastated by a nighttime Russian airstrike.