Syrian President: WWIII Already Unleashed by West, Being Waged in Format of Proxy War

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The West has unleashed World War III, which is being waged by the Nazis in Ukraine in the format of a proxy war and by the hands of terrorists in Syria, but modern weapons, especially nuclear weapons, do not allow the confrontation to escalate into the traditional format of world war, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Sputnik.