These entities are added under the destinations of Russia, Switzerland, Latvia, Pakistan, and United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.)," the US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said in a press release.
The world seems to be so accustomed to casual mentions of the words nuclear strike, nuclear bombs, ballistic missiles etc that it seems to have almost forgotten that when the last time nuclear bombs were actually used in war, two cities in Japan were flattened in a matter of seconds.
Zelensky’s office issued a statement clarifying that he did not call on NATO countries to pre-emptively use nuclear weapons against the Russian Federation. "Russia can blackmail but Ukraine will never make such calls", the press statement read.