William Burnsbwas asked about the fears of Vladimir Putin using a nuclear weapon

William Burns was asked about the fears of Vladimir Putin using a nuclear weapon

The director of the Central Intelligence Agency, William Burns, was asked about the fears of Vladimir Putin using a nuclear weapon in frustration, as the Russian military has suffered setbacks in Ukraine.

Qazet.az reports that Burns said today at a Washington event organised by the Financial Times:

We stay very sharply focused as an intelligence service, as I know our counterparts and allied countries do on those possibilities, at a moment when the stakes are very high for Putin’s Russia.

And those risks in the second phase of the conflict are serious and shouldn’t be underestimated. But we don’t see practical evidence of preparations for that at this stage.