Russia Says Granting Ukraine Membership of NATO Will Guarantee The Beginning of World War Three

• Russia Says Granting Ukraine Membership of NATO Will Guarantee The Beginning of World War Three
  by WALTER FINCH FOR MAILONLINE, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
  * Russia has warned that Ukrainian membership of NATO will start World War 3
  * Zelensky announced surprise bid for fast-track membership on September 30
  * Russian officials called the move ‘suicidal’ and a ‘guaranteed escalation’
  * NATO previously said in 2008 that Ukraine would join the alliance ‘some day’
  * NATO planning nuclear readiness exercises in Europe with bombers in the air
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  Russia has threatened World War Three if its foe Ukraine is granted membership into NATO, a Russian Security Council official was quoted as saying on Thursday. ‘Kyiv is well aware that such a step would mean a guaranteed escalation to World War Three,’ TASS quoted Alexander Venediktov, the deputy secretary of Russia’s Security Council, as saying.
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  Venediktov, who is deputy to Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, a powerful Putin ally, said he felt Ukraine’s application was propaganda as the West understood the consequences of Ukrainian membership of NATO.
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