Former Prime Minister Medvedev stated that there are four cases in which Russia could use nuclear weapons during the war in Ukraine.
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Russia could use the atomic bomb. The nuclear threat has returned to the West, more than thirty years after the end of the Cold War. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Moscow has repeatedly indicated that it is ready to do whatever it takes to conduct a socalled “military special operation”. And woe to NATO if it decides to intervene, that would have unprecedented consequences. In short, Vladimir Putin’s reference has been made explicit several times. Whether this can actually happen or not remains to be seen, but the Russians continue to resort to the nuclear threat in ways that have not been seen in a long time.
A real weapon or negotiating tool that even former Russian Prime Minister now Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has returned to talk about Atomic bomb and the cases in which Russia could use it. According to reports from Pravda Ukraine, citing the Russian propaganda agency RBC, Medvedev has said that there are four cases in which Moscow might decide to use nuclear weapons: if its territory were directly hit by nuclear weapons; when used against his allies; face an invasion of critical infrastructure that would cripple the Russian nuclear deterrent; in the event of an act of aggression against Russia or its allies, as a result of which the country’s existence was threatened.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who has been missing for days, also spoke out in a statement reissued by Interfax: “The priorities are longrange precisionguided weapons, aviation hardware and maintaining the combat readiness of the armed forces. Strategic nuclear weapons “. By the way, the minister is one of three people in Russia who own the nuclear bomb codes.