Al-Marsad newspaper: Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country is ready to use nuclear weapons if the existence of the Russian state is “at stake,” adding: “There has never been such a need.”
nuclear weapons
The US intelligence community has made clear that it believes that Putin’s war on Ukraine increases the risk of him using nuclear weapons.
Ukrainian strikes
The intelligence community noted, in its annual unclassified assessment of international threats, that “Russia’s inability to achieve quick and decisive battlefield victories, coupled with Ukrainian strikes inside Russia, raise concerns that Putin may use nuclear weapons.”
Hostilities
According to the intelligence community report, Russia is also working to expand and modernize its nuclear weapons delivery systems because Moscow “believes that such systems provide options to deter adversaries, control potential escalation of hostilities, and counter conventional forces of the United States and its allies.”
Nuclear weapon
In late 2022, the United States began “rigorously preparing” for the possibility of Russia striking Ukraine with a tactical nuclear weapon on the battlefield, according to CNN political analyst Jim Sciutto in his new book, “The Return of the Great Powers.”
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2024-03-15 23:44:11
