Putin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

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At least 11 people were wounded in a Russian drone attack overnight on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said Sunday. (AP video/Oleksii Yeroshenko and Volodymyr Yurchuk)

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At least 11 people were injured in Kyiv on Sunday following an overnight Russian drone attack, the Ukrainian State Emergency Service said.

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Municipal workers clean up around burnt cars in the residential area following Russia’s drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Municipal workers clean up burnt cars in the residential area following Russia’s drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Municipal workers clean up near burnt cars and a crater made by a drone in the residential area following Russia’s air raid in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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Municipal workers clean up near burnt cars in the residential area following Russia’s drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, May 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)

By  THE ASSOCIATED PRESSUpdated 10:15 AM MST, May 4, 2025Share

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen and that he hopes it will not.

In comments aired Sunday in a film by Russian state television about his quarter of a century in power, Putin said Russia has the strength and the means to bring the conflict in Ukraine to a “logical conclusion.”

Responding to a question about Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory, Putin said: “There has been no need to use those (nuclear) weapons … and I hope they will not be required.”