{"id":1395533,"date":"2026-05-20T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/nato-has-threatened-russia-with-devastating-consequences-if-it-uses-nuclear-weapons-against-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:05:06","slug":"nato-has-threatened-russia-with-devastating-consequences-if-it-uses-nuclear-weapons-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/nato-has-threatened-russia-with-devastating-consequences-if-it-uses-nuclear-weapons-against-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO has threatened Russia with &#8220;devastating consequences&#8221; if it uses nuclear weapons against Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"99\" data-end=\"368\"><strong><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">NATO<\/span><\/span> Secretary General <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Mark Rutte<\/span><\/span> said <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Russia<\/span><\/span> would face &#8220;devastating consequences&#8221; if it decided to use nuclear weapons against <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ukraine<\/span><\/span> .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"370\" data-end=\"502\"> He said this during a press conference in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Brussels<\/span><\/span> , reports <span class=\"\" data-state=\"closed\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurointegration.com.ua\/?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">European Pravda<\/a><\/span> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"626\"> Rutte was asked to comment on the joint Russian-Belarusian nuclear exercises that began this week.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"628\" data-end=\"718\"> \u201cThey know that if this happens, the consequences will be devastating,\u201d the NATO Secretary General emphasized.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"720\" data-end=\"830\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> He also added that the North Atlantic Alliance is closely monitoring the progress of the exercises between Russia and <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Belarus<\/span><\/span> .<\/p>\n<p> As reported, on Monday, May 18, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-bilorusi-rozpochalysia-iaderni-navchannia-spilno-z-rf-detali\/\">military units responsible for the use and maintenance of nuclear weapons began training in Belarus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Russia would face &#8220;devastating consequences&#8221; if it decided to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine . He said this during a press conference in Brussels , reports European Pravda . Rutte was asked to comment on the joint Russian-Belarusian nuclear exercises that began this week. \u201cThey know that if this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1380737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76872,76874,76875,76871],"class_list":["post-1395533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}