North Korea says joint military drills by the United States and South Korea are pushing tensions on the Korean Peninsula to the "brink of a nuclear war," vowing to respond with "offensive action."

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday warned the continued Western support for Ukraine is increasing the likelihood of a nuclear war breaking out in the former Soviet republic as well as igniting the third World War.

An American Democratic politician says “intellectually bankrupt” politicians of the United States have made a nuclear war with Russia a realistic possibility.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has warned NATO that the defeat of his country as a nuclear power in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war.

Russia's former president says fear of Moscow's nukes is only thing holding the West back from seeking open war with his country.

The United States has said that a “nuclear war is something that must never be fought,” after Putin stated that nuclear tensions had risen because of the war in Ukraine.

Russia has said the world’s top priority should be to avoid a military confrontation between nuclear powers, which could lead to “catastrophic consequences.”