President of Russia Vladimir Putin has said former British prime minister Liz Truss was ‘crazy’ to have had concerns over him using nuclear weapons.
She must have been a ‘bit out of it’, Mr Putin said, and claimed to have ‘never said anything proactively about the possible use of nuclear weapons’.
‘We have only hinted in response to statements made by Western leaders,’ he added.
Ms Truss told the UN General Assembly in September that Mr Putin’s nuclear threats are nothing more than ‘sabre-rattling’.
But Mr Putin, in comments unlikely to reassure Ukraine or Western nations, said fears over the use of nuclear weapons are ungrounded.