For General Yakovlev, Putin uses the nuclear threat in the face of his difficulties
“It proves that things are bad for him. Each time, it raises the specter of nuclear power, ”explains General Michel Yakovlev, guest of franceinfo.
He recalls in particular that “Bakhmout is a battle without a strategic object” and whatever the outcome of this battle, “there is another last city”.
IAEA chief to visit Zaporizhia in coming days
Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant “next week”, announces the organization on his site.
A visit, the exact date of which has not been specified, but which aims “to assess the serious situation in terms of nuclear safety and security at the installation and to underline the urgent need to protect it during the conflict ongoing military in the country”.
Russia to deploy ‘tactical’ nuclear weapons in Belarus
The Russian president also said that Moscow was going to deploy “tactical” nuclear weapons on the territory of its ally, Belarus, a country located at the gates of the European Union.
“There is nothing unusual here: the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long been deploying their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allies,” he said in an interview broadcast on Russian television. “We agreed to do the same. »
Putin threatens to use depleted uranium shells
Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened on Saturday to use depleted uranium shells in Ukraine if kyiv were to receive them from Westerners, as recently mentioned by a British official.
“Russia, of course, has something to answer for. We have, without exaggeration, hundreds of thousands of such shells. We are not using them at the moment, ”explains the Russian president during a television interview.