Putin says Russia has to take into account NATO's nuclear capability

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has no choice but to take into account the nuclear capabilities of NATO as the U.S.-led military alliance was seeking the defeat of Russia.

"In today's conditions, when all the leading NATO countries have declared their main goal as inflicting a strategic defeat on us, so that our people suffer as they say, how can we ignore their nuclear capabilities in these conditions?" Putin was quoted as saying by Russian media as he was interviewed by Rossiya 1 state television.

The West wants to liquidate Russia, the Russian president noted. "They have one goal: to disband the former Soviet Union and its fundamental part - the Russian Federation."

(Reuters)