In a statement on Tuesday on the ministry's website, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Washington and its allies had exacerbated the Ukrainian crisis.

She added that the West had unleashed a fierce hybrid confrontation with Russia, and today they are teetering dangerously on the edge of an open military confrontation with it as well.

It also continued that such confrontation necessarily means a direct armed conflict for the nuclear powers, expressing concern that such a potential clash would be fraught with nuclear escalation.

The Russian official's words coincided with the announcement by the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, a few days ago, about the possibility of a nuclear war.

While the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, considered that Russia is not manipulating the issue of nuclear war.

However, Russian President Vladimir Putin had requested months ago, with the start of the Russian operation in Ukraine, that the nuclear deterrent forces be put on alert.

The move sparked international outrage, as the West considered it a clear threat to the possibility of launching a nuclear war.

The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly announced that its nuclear missile forces and fleet in the North and Pacific Ocean have been put on an enhanced combat mission.