Kremlin spokesperson says Putin would use nuclear weapons in face of ‘existential threat’: Report.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told CNN on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not rule out using nuclear weapons if he felt his country’s existence is threatened, according to Insider

“President Putin intends to make the world listen to and understand our concerns,” Peskov told Christiane Amanpour. “We’ve been trying to convey our concerns to the world — to Europe, to the United states — for a couple of decades but no one would listen to us.”

Peskov refused to rule out the use of nuclear weapons.

“We have a concept of domestic security and, well, it’s public, you can read all the reasons for nuclear arms to be used,” he said. “If it is an existential threat for our country, then it can be used.”

Russia’s nuclear policy says the country can only use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear weapons or other unconventional arms against Moscow or its allies — or in response to “aggression” using conventional arms “when the very existence of the state is put under threat,” according to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

At the start of Russia’s invasion into Ukraine, Putin warned that any country that interferes “should know that Russia’s response will be immediate and will lead you to such consequences as you have never experienced in your history.”