Russia warns it ‘reserves the right to nuclear weapons’ against the west and warns a peacekeeping force in Ukraine will ‘lead to World War Three’

From the outset Moscow said NATO’s steady advance east toward and into Ukraine was one of the principle reasons for its intervention. Yet Britain and France, both NATO members, still want to deploy their troops to Ukraine as ‘peacekeepers’. Are they trying to provoke Moscow with such obvious nonsense, after they spent the past few years arming and supporting Kiev?