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The US has been privately dissuading Russia from using nuclear weapons in Ukraine for months

The United States government has been communicating directly and privately with Moscow for months to alert Vladimir Putin's regime to the "serious consequences" that the use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine would have, according to The Washington Post on Friday.

The newspaper, which quoted unnamed government sources, assures that the consequences of which the US has warned Russia in case it uses nuclear weapons are "deliberately diffuse" precisely to raise concerns in the Kremlin about the hypothetical US response.

On Wednesday, Putin brandished "the weapons of the future" to warn NATO that it has an "unparalleled" nuclear arsenal that allows it to counter any Western threat. "I want to remind you that our country also has different offensive systems and, in some components, they are more modern than those of NATO countries," he assured in the televised speech in which he announced the partial mobilization in Ukraine.

The Russian president, who presented to the world four years ago a new hypersonic weapon capable of circumventing the US anti-missile shield and reaching any point on the globe, added that Moscow will not hesitate to use all means at its disposal to defend its country and its people. "This is not a bluff," stressed Putin, who at the beginning of the "special military operation in Ukraine" already put his nuclear deterrence forces on alert.

The Kremlin has always defended nuclear parity with the United States through its triad -atomic submarines, intercontinental missiles, and strategic aviation-, but in recent years it boasts of having a "super-weapon" without analogs in the world.

So far it has not transpired whether the United States has sent new messages since this new escalation of tension in the war in Ukraine began, according to the aforementioned newspaper.

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