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Now, I'll grant you, I have ZERO knowledge of Russian and so can only work from translation, BUT...
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-warns-west-risk-nuclear-war-says-moscow-can-strike-western-targets-2024-02-29/
"(Western nations) must realise that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilisation. Don't they get that?!"
Seems unambiguous...
Notice: '...we also have...'
He is referring at the precarious nuclear effective capabilities Russia have compared to Nato countries. Ofc western headliners will write NUCLEAR WAR IMMINENT.
He meant new, clear weapons.
People (including you) seem to forget the context for why the Cold War was a cold war.