Putin spoke on October 1 at the plenary session of the Valdai Club

This year’s session is being held under the title “Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible or Possibilities Without Limit?”

Opening the session, Fyodor Lukyanov said that the club’s annual report is called “No Panic” and calls on people in the current situation “not to fuss”. Putin, in response, noted that the pressing problems have not gone away.

The day before Putin’s speech, Reuters reported on a closed diplomatic note in which Moscow, according to the agency, threatened NATO with nuclear weapons. According to Reuters, the trigger was a possible attempt to isolate the Kaliningrad region from the rest of Russia.

In a written response, NATO called itself a defensive alliance. The alliance also called on Russia to end its invasion of Ukraine and отказаться from “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric”.

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• Material: theins.ru