Russia again threatened the USA with a nuclear war: You are playing with fire!

Russia warned the West was playing with fire by considering allowing Ukraine to deep strike Russia with Western missiles and warned the United States on Tuesday that World War III would not be limited to Europe, Reuters reported.

Ukraine invaded Russia's western Kursk region on August 6 and cut off a swath of territory in the biggest foreign attack on Russia since World War II. President Vladimir Putin announced that there would be a decent response from Russia to the attack.

Sergei Lavrov, who has been Putin's foreign minister for more than 20 years, said the West was seeking to escalate the war in Ukraine and was "creating problems" by considering Ukraine's requests to loosen restrictions on the use of weapons supplied from abroad.

Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Putin has repeatedly warned of the risk of a much wider war involving the world's largest nuclear powers, although he has assured that Russia does not want conflict with the US and NATO.

"Now we confirm once again that playing with fire - and they are like little children playing with matches - is a very dangerous thing for the elderly uncles and aunts entrusted with a nuclear weapon in one Western country or another." , Lavrov noted to reporters in Moscow.

"Americans unequivocally associate talks about the Third World War as something that, God forbid, if it happens, will affect Europe exclusively,”, Moscow's first diplomat believes.

Lavrov added that Russia is "clarifying" its nuclear doctrine.

Russia's 2020 nuclear doctrine defines when its president will consider using nuclear weapons: generally in response to an attack using nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction or conventional weapons, "when the very existence of the state is placed under threat“.