Ukraine’s president doesn’t think the Russian army’s slow roll through his country is enough to press Vladimir Putin into using nuclear weapons.

In an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he didn’t take the Russian president’s threats seriously. Putin put his country’s nuclear forces on “high alert” late last month, days after he started his invasion.

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