IF West sends troops to Ukraine, Russia will launch a nuclear attack on Washington, Paris and London

The deployment of Western troops to Ukraine would be akin to these countries declaring war on Russia, and lead to a catastrophe on a global scale, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said.

"Sending their troops to the territory of former Ukraine will mean their direct involvement in the war. We will have to respond to this. And, alas, not on the territory of former Ukraine," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

He added that in this case, Western leaders "won't be able to hide on Capitol Hill, or in the Elysee Palace, or on 10 Downing Street." "A global catastrophe will ensue," Medvedev concluded.

According to him, the cause of the discussion on dispatching Western troops to Ukraine, launched by French President Emmanuel Macron, is a "shameless calculation for political bonus points."

"Some kind of a total degradation of the ruling class in the West is underway," Medvedev clarified and reiterated that the extent of the catastrophic nature of such a clash was something "US President John Kennedy and Russian leader

Nikita Khrushchev could grasp over 60 years ago." "Yet current immature imbeciles who got to power in the West keep failing to recognize this," he

added. Following these threats, it is noteworthy that Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered

tactical nuclear weapons drills in response to what the defense ministry has described as provocative statements and threats from the West.

Moscow will carry out the drills "in the near

future" to increase the readiness of non-strategic

nuclear forces to perform combat missions, the defense ministry said in a statement, noting that they will be held with missile formations from the Russian Southern Military District and Russian Navy forces. "During the exercise, a set of measures will be

carried out to practice the issues of preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons," the defense ministry said. The exercises are aimed at "maintaining the

readiness of personnel and equipment of units for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons" and ensuring the nation's territorial integrity and sovereignty "in response to provocative statements

and threats by individual Western officials

against the Russian Federation," the ministry

added