Russia warns of 'World War 3' if Ukraine joins US-led NATO military alliance
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Russia on Thursday said that the admission of Ukraine to NATO could result in a 'third world war'. "If Ukraine is admitted into the US-led NATO military alliance, then the conflict in Ukraine would be guaranteed to escalate into World War Three," the deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Alexander Venediktov, told the state TASS news agency in an interview on Thursday, Reuters reported.