MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen, and that he hoped it would not arise.

In a fragment of an upcoming interview with Russian state television published on Telegram, Putin said that Russia has the strength and the means to bring the conflict in Ukraine to a “logical conclusion.”

Responding to a question from a state television reporter about Ukrainian strikes on Russia, Putin said: “There has been no need to use those (nuclear) weapons … and I hope they will not be required.”

He said: “We have enough strength and means to bring what was started in 2022 to a logical conclusion with the outcome Russia requires.”

Putin in February 2022 ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine, in what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” against its neighbor.

Though Russian troops were repelled........

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