The concern rises. The United States has become “over the months” “increasingly concerned” about the possibility of a potential tactical nuclear strike from Russia in the context of the war in Ukraine, an adviser to the United States said on Wednesday. White House. “We are monitoring this as best we can,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, a body attached to US President Joe Biden.
He was being asked, in a press interview, about a New York Times article that high-ranking Russian military personnel recently discussed when and how to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. According to the American daily, however, this discussion did not take place with Vladimir Putin.
The White House, however, has indicated that it has no indication of concrete preparations by Russia in this direction. Joe Biden recently estimated that the world was for the first time since the Cold War faced with the risk of an “Armageddon”, that is to say a “nuclear apocalypse”.