Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that NATO was a “serious threat” to Russia, and the West’s positions risked a “direct clash between nuclear powers with catastrophic consequences.”
Lavrov also said he regretted that the US had rejected talks with Moscow over “strategic stability” – a host of issues related to nuclear weapons – and said that without direct talks between the world’s two largest nuclear powers, the risk to global security would only grow.
Meanwhile, Residents of Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine have scrambled for cover as Russia launched another barrage of missiles at the country after explosions were reported at two airfields in central Russia.
Air-raid sirens could be heard in many parts of the country on December 5 with officials warning people to shelter from missiles that “have already been launched.”
Earlier on December 5, at least one large explosion occurred at a Russian military air base in the Saratov region, about 600 kilometers east of Ukraine, while another blast was reported by Russian state media at an airfield outside Ryazan, southeast of Moscow.
Social media posts by residents in the cities of Engels and Saratov seemed to show a large explosion at the Engels-2 air base at about 6 a.m. local time on December 5.
