Russia is committed to preventing nuclear war and confrontation between nuclear-armed powers, the Secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, said Wednesday, according to Russian state media TASS. 

“(Russia) is convinced of the need to prevent any military confrontation between countries possessing nuclear weapons,” Patrushev said during a meeting in New Delhi, according to TASS.

Patrushev said Russia would continue fighting in Ukraine until all of Moscow’s goals are met. He also warned that “the provocative behavior of the West in the context of the crisis in Ukraine can lead to catastrophic consequences.”

Patrushev specifically cited the “steadily increasing military assistance to Ukraine from the United States and other Western states.”

Nuclear weapons potentially on the move: Patrushev’s comments come after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the Kremlin plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, Ukraine’s northern neighbor. US President Joe Biden called those comments “worrying” and “disturbing” yesterday.