Just In: Crypto Market Fumbles As Vladimir Putin Says “Risk Of Nuclear War Rising”

In a televised Human Rights Council meeting on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin provided a comprehensive public war update. The President further states that the risk of a nuclear war is rising, and insisted that Russia had not “gone mad”, Instead it sees its own nuclear arsenal as a purely defensive measure.

Putin added that the United States had placed the so-called “tactical” nuclear weapons in other nations, and not Russia — and that he would protect its territory and its allies “with all possible measures.”

This was a reference to the notion that several of the U.S.’s tactical nukes are hosted by NATO defense allies in Europe, Including those that extend as far east as Turkey. During the session, Putin was also found to state:

Our nuclear forces are in a more advanced state than any other country in the world

Following this news, the crypto market dipped by a small extent with Bitcoin and Ethereum both slipping marginally over 0.1% in the past thirty minutes, at the time of writing.

This is a developing story and will be updated.