2023-05-04 23:18:29
“According to our doctrine, we have every right to use tactical nuclear weapons. That’s what this great balancer is for, too. Until there is an obvious mismatch in the ratio of conventional forces and armaments in favor of the adversary,” Rogozin, who is based in Ukraine and heads the Tsarskije volki (Tsar’s Wolves) military advisory group.
According to him, Russia “has no other option” to defeat the Ukrainian attack. Rogozin also says that the Russians are counting on the Ukrainian offensive: “We understand that it will be very difficult, because there is a huge force on their side, but no one on our side is going to leave their positions.”
The Russian military, on behalf of dictator Vladimir Putin, has played out a scenario of a nuclear attack in Ukraine, the Financial Times reports, citing two sources close to the Kremlin. After a simulation at the headquarters exercise, Putin concluded that even a limited nuclear strike would not bring him any military benefit.
“Why bomb Ukraine? You detonate a tactical nuclear warhead in Zaporizhzhia. Everything is completely contaminated with radiation, you can’t go in there. But it is, as they believe, the territory of Russia. Whats the point?” said one of the sources.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner mercenary gang, spoke out against the use of nuclear weapons in response to the recent drone attack on the Kremlin. “As a radical person, I can say that the use of nuclear weapons in response to a drone is certainly out of the question. First of all, whoever is responsible for the fight against drones is put on the torture wheel to find out how this could happen in principle. We look like clowns threatening a baby drone with an atomic bomb,” admits Prigozhin.
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