Valeriy Chaly, former Ambassador of Ukraine to the U.S., said this on Espreso TV."Russia, in its style, is again trying to scare the world with new nuclear developments, and America has picked up on this topic for the first time. This is not very good for Ukraine, because we do not have nuclear weapons and appropriate capabilities. But in the context of the confrontation and rivalry between China and the U.S., where Russia plays the role of an irritant on China's side, the Russians, in fact, lost.At this spectacle, at the meeting of the Security Council, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Armed Forces, General Gerasimov, stated that it takes from a month to several years to prepare an underground explosion. And FSB director Bortnikov said that 'we still have to analyze the situation.' After that, Putin said: 'No, we are not preparing any nuclear test yet,'" Chaly noted.According to the diplomat, the Kremlin understands the situation perfectly. They are giving the U.S. a pass, and if the U.S. really picks up this pass, it can be compared to the situation of the Soviet Union."One of the factors in the collapse of the USSR was insufficient economic resources to support the programs of the military-industrial complex, in space and the nuclear component. Therefore, Putin does not need a real arms race - Russia will lose it. What they staged at the Security Council is just a spectacle," Chaly emphasized.Russia tested the Burevestnik cruise missile with a nuclear propulsion system. The launch took place from the Novaya Zemlya archipelago in the Arkhangelsk region of the Russian Federation, in the Arctic Ocean. On November 3, President Donald Trump stated that the U.S. should not remain the only country not conducting nuclear tests, and added that Russia and China also conduct them, although they do not report it. On November 5, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that the United States allegedly conducted exercises in October to practice a preventive missile and nuclear strike on Russia.