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NATO headquarters in Brussels announced that the meeting of defense ministers in member states has been changed to be on Wednesday and Thursday 12 and 13 October instead of Thursday and Friday 13 and 14 of the same month, a meeting scheduled to be chaired by NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, which will be held on the eve of the meeting A press conference announcing the most prominent files raised during the discussions of the ministerial meeting in Brussels
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau stated that NATO's response to Russia's possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine should be non-nuclear but "destructive".
According to Russia Today, Rao said that NATO must respond firmly and forcefully to "Russian threats."

He added, "As far as we know, what Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens is to use tactical nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil, not attack NATO, which means that NATO must respond in a conventional way. But the response must be devastating," noting that this is "the message." The clear message that NATO is sending to Russia.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has threatened Russia with "terrible consequences" if it uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Earlier, Putin warned "those who are trying to blackmail Russia with nuclear weapons" that "the wind may blow in their direction."

In turn, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev expressed his belief that if Russia was forced to use its most powerful weapons against Kyiv, NATO would not directly intervene in the conflict, because "demagogues in Europe and beyond do not want to perish in a nuclear catastrophe."