Gurugram: Russia cannot be defeated in its war with Ukraine because Moscow retains the option of using nuclear weapons if it faces an existential threat, Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov said Tuesday.

“You can’t, you know, take over us in this conflict simply because of nuclear weapons. Simply because of our nuclear weapons. We have in our doctrine that if there is existential threat to us, there is a possibility of its use,” Alipov said at the ThePrint’s Off the Cuff event in Gurugram.

The envoy, in an interaction with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta and Defence and Diplomacy Editor Snehesh Alex Philip, dismissed the European nations’ hope for a victory by Ukraine in the war as “childish behaviour”.

He said that US President Donald Trump recognised the futility of

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