Ukraine does not exclude the possibility of direct involvement of the leading countries in the world in a 'limited' nuclear conflict, Lieutenant General Valery Zaluzhny and Lieutenant General Mikhail Zabrodsky, first deputy chairman of the VR Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, wrote on Ukrinform portal.

"It is also impossible to completely exclude the possibility of direct involvement of the leading countries of the world in a "limited" nuclear conflict, with which the prospect of World War III is already directly visible...

Any attempts to take practical steps in the use of tactical nuclear weapons must be stopped, using the entire arsenal of means at the disposal of the countries of the world. At that moment the Russian Federation will become not only a threat to peaceful coexistence for Ukraine, its other neighbors and some European countries but also a terrorist state on a truly global scale", the article says.