A Russian commander recently said in an interview on Russian TV that using nuclear weapons is Russia’s only option if it wants to win the Ukrainian-Russian war. He believes that once NATO allies participate directly in this war, Russia will not be able to load conventional weapons and ultimately can only choose to use nuclear weapons.
On the 14th, the US CNN “Cable News Network” reported that the commander of the Russian Donetsk militia Alexander Khodakovsky (Alexander Khodakovsky) said in an interview that the Russian military authorities are aware that their resources are limited. With the support of Western humanitarian and military aid, Ukraine also continues to undermine Russia’s military gains. He also said that if fighting escalates again, Russia may have to choose instead to defeat Ukraine with nuclear weapons.
At the moment, NATO countries are “indirectly” assisting Ukraine in the form of military support, but once NATO participates directly in military conflicts, Russia could deploy nuclear weapons. Alexander also said that Russia lacks the capability to use conventional weapons to fight the entire NATO, which is why the use of nuclear weapons has become Russia’s “only option”. “But that’s why we have nuclear weapons, we built them just for this situation,” he said.
Although Alexander made the above remarks, the Kremlin has yet to respond to his comments and NATO allies have shown no plans to participate directly in the war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said he may change his military policy to not use nuclear weapons. The United States also has a different opinion on this: retired US Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges (Ben Hodges) believes that the chance of Russia resorting to nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine is very small. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned last week that Putin was expanding and modernizing his nuclear arsenal.
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