AGI – Russia raises the specter of nuclear war again. Usually it is Dmitry Medvedev, former prime minister, former president and Interpreter of the most extreme soul of the Kremlin in the Ukraine crisis.
But this time it is he, Vladimir Putin, who takes the floor, using the stage of the St. Petersburg forum to announce that the transfer of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarusian territory is “an element of deterrence, a signal to those who they are.” I am thinking of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia. “We will complete the nuclear arms transfer by the end of the summer,” he adds.
He then warns NATO: Russia “has more nuclear weapons than NATO countries. They want us to reduce them, but we won’t.” And he also warns those who believe in the Ukrainian counteroffensive: “Soon they will stop using weapons and equipment of their production, everything they use, comes from outside.” You don’t fight for long that way“.
His attack on Ukrainian President Zelenskyy borders on racism: “Not Jewish, but the shame of the Jewish peopleHe said in an interview at the forum’s plenary session, before asking for a minute’s silence to commemorate former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who died on Monday at the age of 86.
The Kremlin chief reiterated that the former Italian prime minister “did a lot to build long-term relations between Russia and NATO” and described him as a “brilliant” person, a personality “of international standing”.
Regarding the drone affair over Moscow and St. Petersburg, Putin says: “Destroy every building in central Kiev It doesn’t cost anything, but we don’t do it for several reasons.” The Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory are “attempts to provoke serious retaliatory measures from Russia”. “What will it cost if we destroyed five Patriot complexes near Kiev?” “We are not allowed to destroy any building or any infrastructure in Kiev?” he adds.