With a view to the meeting of the Ukraine contact group at the US air base in Ramstein, Putin's ally Medvedev is again threatening nuclear war.
Munich – In the background of the Ukraine war, the constant threats from Russia never end.
In view of the meeting of the so-called Ukraine Contact Group at the US Ramstein Air Force Base on Friday (January 20), ex-President Dmitry Medvedev spoke up in the short message service Telegram.
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In the course of Vladimir Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine, Medvedev has made a name for himself with threats against the West.
He continued this in his most recent post.
"Tomorrow, at the Ramstein NATO base, the major military leaders will discuss new tactics and strategies, as well as the delivery of new heavy weapons and attack systems to Ukraine," wrote the current deputy chief of the Russian Security Council.
Already at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, "underdeveloped political partisans" repeated like a kind of "mantra" that Russia must lose in order to achieve peace.
If you wish for a Russian defeat, however, you would miss an "elementary conclusion", explained the Putin ally: "The loss of nuclear power in a conventional war can provoke the outbreak of a nuclear war." An Eastern Europe expert recently accused Berlin of fear to have before a defeat of Russia.
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After all, nuclear powers "have not lost any major conflicts on which their fate depends".
Russia repeatedly stages the war against Ukraine as a fight for Russian sovereignty and portrays the neighboring country as a threat to the existence of the Russian state preserved,” concluded the former President and Prime Minister.
The Russian military doctrine limits the use of nuclear weapons only to certain circumstances.
However, "situations critical to the national security of the Russian Federation" are included.
In this case, the Russian military is allowed to respond to the enemy's use of conventional weapons with nuclear weapons, as the British Parliament explains in a report on the Russian military.
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Ukraine war current: British ex-prime minister considers the use of nuclear weapons unlikely and warns Moscow
Despite all the threats from Moscow, British ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson believes the likelihood of a nuclear use by Russia is "vanishingly small".
After all, Putin was sent a clear warning, which he also heard, he told the Ukrainian news portal
European Pravda
.
According to Johnson, with such an action, Putin would also lose the possible support of impartial states in Asia and Africa, for example.
Should nuclear weapons be used anyway, the former prime minister suspects a Western response.
"I think the West would be forced to retaliate," Johnson said.
The British politician went on to warn: "Furthermore, the current freeze on the Russian economy is absolutely nothing compared to what we will do in the event of a nuclear attack against Putin's Russia."
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