Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov last night (Tuesday) addressed concerns among countries around the world about the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin would use a nuclear bank and said such an event would only occur in the event of an existential threat to Russia.
According to Peskov, in an interview with PBS: “We have a security concept that states very clearly: only when there is a threat to the existence of the state can we use nuclear weapons, and in practice we will use nuclear weapons to eliminate the threat to existence.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zalansky said tonight in an interview with The Economist that: “15,000 Russian soldiers were killed in one month. Putin throws Russian soldiers like logs into a railway kiln and they do not even bury them. The bodies of Russian soldiers remain in the streets. In some. “Our soldier cities say it is impossible to breathe because of the stench of rotten meat.”
Recall, in Ukraine last night celebrated the reconquest of the city of Irpyn near the capital Kiev, which was for days under Russian occupation. The mayor, as the great of Beit She’an, said that “this is a great victory for the people of Irpin and for Ukraine. Glory to Ukraine!”
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At the same time, in the northern city of Chernivtsi, Russian forces managed to encircle the entire city. According to reports in Ukraine, the Russian army is shelling hospitals and clinics in the city, along with the disconnection of electricity and water supply to the city.
The Pentagon said that despite the circumnavigation of the city of Chernivtsi, the Russians were almost unsuccessful in the conquest of Kyiv and the north of the country, and that Russia was suffering many defeats in the region.
At the same time, the Pentagon stressed that it could not at this stage confirm the Ukrainians’ claims that they had managed to retake the city of Irpin.