Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to keep his nuclear weapons ready for use in war.
He spoke about this among the army commanders on Wednesday and said: All the goals of Russia in Ukraine will be achieved by the end of this year. For that, the government will make all necessary arrangements for the Russian army commanders.
It will be ensured that the entire nuclear arsenal of the country is ready for immediate use at the time of need.
Also, the government will not decide any upper limit on the financial allocation required for the army.
NATO is fighting against Russia with all its might. To counter it appropriately, the Russian army commanders should use the experience gained in the war in Syria and the war in Ukraine.
Our forces must pay special attention to the importance of drone strikes in the war in Ukraine.
He said that Charmat, a hyposonic missile developed by Russia, will soon be put into use by the forces.
Russia wants Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Union, to maintain its influence even after it declares itself a separate country.
Also, Russia sees its close neighbor Ukraine joining NATO as a threat to its national security.
In this situation, in 2014, Western-backed opposition parties staged a vigorous protest against the then President Viktor Yanukovych, who was supported by Russia.
His government was then overthrown and a new government led by Petro Poroshenko was installed. The Klachials who left Eastern Ukraine against that government engaged in a civil war with Russian support and captured large areas in those areas.
However, Ukrainian forces continued to attack them. At that time, Russia is accusing that the soldiers were killing the civilians, and that the Azov soldiers, who had a pro-Nazi position in eastern Ukraine, played an important role in this.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky, a former comedian who took over as the next president of Ukraine in 2019, showed interest in joining NATO despite Russia’s opposition.
In this context, Russia invaded Ukraine last February 24. At that time, Vladimir Putin announced that the objectives of the military operation were to protect the people of Eastern Ukraine from the attacks of the Ukrainian army and to save the Ukrainian army from nazization.
It has now been 10 months since the start of the war, although Russia has captured large parts of Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Khozan regions and declared them as their country, some parts of them are still under the control of Ukrainian forces.
In this context, Vladimir Putin has assured his army commanders that their goals will be achieved by the end of this year and that nuclear weapons will be kept ready for that.