Liz Truss was “crazy” when she raised concerns about nuclear weapons, Vladimir Putin has claimed.
During a major speech in Moscow, the Russian president hit out at the UK’s former prime minister for comments she made while she was foreign secretary.
He said she must have been “a bit out of it” and he claimed to have “never said anything proactively about possible use of nuclear weapons by Russia”.
“We have only hinted in response to statements made by western leaders,” he added.
During her address to the UN General Assembly in September, Ms Truss had labelled President Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons as “saber-rattling”.
And speaking during a live, televised debate in Moscow on Thursday, Mr Putin accused Britain and the West of playing a “dangerous, dirty and deadly game” in Ukraine – and he warned the era of western domination was over.
