World on verge of new Cuban Missile Crisis over Russia's nuclear threats, Ukraine warns

The world is heading into a new Cuban Missile Crisis now that Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, a top official in President Volodymyr Zelensky's office has said. Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to chief of staff Andriy Yermak, has compared Russia's latest sabre-rattling to the Soviet Union's deployment of nuclear weapons to Cuba in 1962. Mr. Podolyak is calling on the West to respond, just as it did then, by making it clear that it is also willing to use nuclear weapons if Russia does not back down. "A new Caribbean Crisis is already developing, and…