Putin Ally Threatens Russia's Defeat In Ukraine 'May Trigger A Nuclear War'

Russian President Vladimir Putin's ally and former President Dmitry Medvedev threatened a nuclear war on Thursday if Moscow lost the Ukraine war.

What Happened: Medvedev said the defeat of Putin in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war and warned the West to reconsider their support for Kyiv.

"The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war," Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of the Russian security council, said in a post on Telegram.

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"Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends," he added.

Medvedev said that North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO, and other world leaders that are due to meet at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday to discuss support for Ukraine should consider the risks of their policy.

Russia has repeatedly blamed the West for atrocities in the war-torn nation. Earlier this week, Putin, in a call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, slammed "the destructive line of the Kyiv regime, which has bet on the intensification of hostilities with the support of Western sponsors, who are ramping up the supplies of weapons and military equipment."

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