Biden warns of ‘Armageddon’ following Putin threats

President Joe Biden warned of the escalating threat of nuclear armageddon in the wake of threats from Russia's leader Vladimir Putin.

Biden said Thursday that we have not faced the possibility of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis.

We have a direct threat to the use of nuclear weapons, for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The president was talking about the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, where the latter has been capturing more territory from Putin's forces.

Biden said, I don't think there's any such thing as the ability to use a tactical nuclear weapon and not end up with Armageddon. Why It Matters: Russia declared victory in a series of referendums it organized in occupied regions of Ukraine.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced Kremlin's move and said the pseudo-referendums were worthless.

Ukraine's army has breached Russian defenses and made significant gains in the South and East, seizing the territories annexed by Moscow.

Putin warned the West that it was not a bluff that Russia would use all means to protect its territory. The plans for the referendum were announced shortly after the comments were made.

The EU Foreign Policy Chief Joseph Borell said recently that it's a dangerous moment because the Russian army has been pushed into a corner, and Putin's reaction to threatening nuclear arms is very bad. Elon Musk, Tesla Inc TSLA CEO, recently opined that a possible, albeit unlikely outcome from the raging conflict is nuclear war, while referring to Putin's threats.