Zelenskyj advisor warns against the use of nuclear weapons - Putin henchman rumbles: "Russia has the right to do so"
Created: 10/01/2022 09:39 am
By: Andreas Schmid
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin are unlikely to negotiate with each other in the near future.
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Russia repeatedly threatens to use nuclear weapons.
A Selenskyj consultant now sees an increased risk, which the Kremlin denies.
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Kyiv/Moscow - Statistically, it takes 15 months for a war between two countries to end.
In the Ukraine war, the question is how such an end to the war should be brought about.
Negotiations have been stagnating for months, and Russia responded to a Ukrainian counter-offensive with referendums on annexation in four Ukrainian regions.
On Friday, Vladimir Putin announced that the Zaporizhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions have now been officially annexed: another key and possibly turning point in this war.
Zelenskyj advisor warns against the use of nuclear weapons: "The risk is increasing"
Because: If there are now Ukrainian attacks on these areas, Russia has a reason for war.
The Kremlin will then probably argue that Russian territory has been attacked and that one must defend oneself.
"By all means," as Putin recently threatened several times.
Even with nuclear weapons?
Ex-Chancellor Angela Merkel recently said that Putin should be taken seriously when he says: "I'm not bluffing." Ukraine also seems concerned.
Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, thinks it is conceivable that Moscow could also use nuclear weapons in the war against Ukraine.
"In view of the internal panic in the Russian Federation and the increasing military defeats, the risk of this is increasing," said the Selenskyj advisor to
BILD
.
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This is how experts assess the danger of a nuclear strike
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"That would be Putin's end and he knows it"
Other experts currently see no immediate threat of nuclear weapons use.
"Of course, there is always this theoretical option of using chemical or nuclear weapons in the background," military expert Carlo Massala told
Business Insider
.
"At the moment I think that's very unlikely."
Military expert Gustav Gressel takes a similar view.
"I think that's relatively unlikely," he says in an interview with our editors.
"A tactical nuclear weapon would change little at the front, if only because the Ukrainian military is relatively decentralized."
Peter Neumann of London's Kings College thinks so.
"I currently consider the use of nuclear weapons to be out of the question." This is due to the threat of a reaction from the West, especially the USA.
“Putin is aware that in such a case the US would immediately actively intervene in the war.
That would be Putin's end and he knows it."
Nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war?
Medvedev: "Russia has the right"
The Kremlin itself appeased on Friday.
"People who talk about a nuclear escalation are acting very irresponsibly," Putin's government spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday (September 30).
If you look at Putin's speeches, it is striking that he never speaks directly of "nuclear weapons".
It is only an indirect suggestion that "all available means will be used".
Ex-President Medvedev was clearer: "I have to remind you again - for the deaf who only hear themselves.
Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons if necessary.”
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