We are closer to nuclear war than in Cuban Missile Crisis – Khrushchev relative

Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev meeting British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in Moscow (PA)

Russia and the West are closer to nuclear war than during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev has said.

Nina Khrushcheva, an academic whose great-grandfather was leader of the Soviet Union during the 1962 standoff, warned the conflict in Ukraine is more dangerous because neither side appears prepared to “back off.”