Sahra Wagenknecht, a German parliament member whose country is a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ally, issued a new warning over the possibility of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war spilling over into a nuclear confrontation.
Russian officials have regularly floated the possibility that Moscow could strike NATO members in response to the aid and weapons they have provided to Ukraine in the conflict.
According to Tass, a Russian state news agency, Wagenknecht, leader of Germany’s Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice party (BSW), in an interview with the Funke media group warned that if “NATO becomes party” to the war it will escalate into a “nuclear confrontation.”
“If NATO becomes a party to the conflict in Ukraine, it will get to a point where Russia will carry out a strike on military facilities in NATO territory,” Wagenknecht said. “After that, the conflict will soon escalate into nuclear confrontation because …