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6th Dec 2023

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Russia claims untouchable status due to nuclear arsenal

Russian Security Council chairman and ex-president Dmitry Medvedev has again threatened nuclear armageddon over the West's reaction to the Ukraine invasion. "The idea of punishing a country that has one of the largest nuclear potentials is absurd. And potentially poses a threat to the existence of humanity," Medvedev said. Ukraine was investigating more than 21,000 alleged Russian war crimes already, its prosecutor general Iryna Venediktova told the BBC.

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