Russia Talks Up Nuke War

WORLD War Three is now a "real" danger - and it could go nuclear, Vladimir Putin's mouthpiece claimed last night.

- Jerry Lawton

Sergei Lavrov said his country was already at war with Nato by “proxy after member states supplied Ukraine with weapons, “pouring oil on the fire”.

And he warned Ukraine attacks on Russian soil using that firepower risked escalating the conflict into a full-blown nuclear war.

The Russian foreign minister said everyone was “reciting incantations” that in no case can we allow World War Three and Russia was striving to prevent nuclear conflict at all costs.