“Just to give you a guess, we would respond by leading a NATO effort – a collective effort – that every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea, and would eliminate every ship in the Black Sea “: said former General David Petraeus, former head of the CIA, in an interview with ABC, answering a question about what would happen if Putin used the nuclear weapon. According to Petraeus “there has to be an answer give”, but not necessarily “nuclear versus nuclear” to avoid “nuclear escalation”. “The Russians made Napoleon suffer, the Nazis and so on, but I don’t think Vladimir Putin will be able to change Europe Europe will have a hard winter, it will let less gas flow, but it will make it.” and I don’t think he is on the issue of supporting Ukraine will split,” ex-General David Petraeus, former head of the CIA, said in an interview with ABC.
NATO warns Putin: “HARD NUCLEAR RESPONSE”
“Any use of nuclear weapons will have serious consequences for Russia.” The response to Vladimir Putin’s threats to use tactical nuclear warheads to protect the new self-proclaimed borders with the annexations of Ukraine’s territories comes from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who in an interview with NBC denounced the Kremlin chief’s rhetoric as “dangerous” and “reckless.” “. The Alliance, he warned, stands ready, resolute, and united in response to any deliberate attack on its critical infrastructure. But on Kiev’s accession, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for again after the tsar’s last tears, Stoltenberg reiterated that every decision must be approved by all members. In any case, he assured, the allies would continue to support Ukraine, which continued to make progress on the ground, as evidenced by the recapture of Lyman. The city “is completely liberated,” Zelensky confirmed, thanking the army and celebrating the return of “Ukrainian flags to Donbass.” The Kiev leader addressed the Russians directly, urging them to abandon Putin. “Until you all solve the problem with the one who started it all, who started this senseless war for Russia against Ukraine – he said – you will be killed one by one, as scapegoats, not to admit that this war is a historic one Error for Russia is “.
After prompting Russian troops into a new, sensational retreat, the resumption of Lyman, a strategic railroad junction in Donetsk, gave fresh impetus to the Kiev counter-offensive immediately after the Kremlin annexed the region. A decision that has also received a formal green light from Moscow’s Constitutional Court as the Duma prepares to ratify the treaties signed by the Tsar on Friday with the separatist leaders of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia. Within the Russian Federation, new Putin decrees specify that the regions with the borders of the day of annexation will enter and keep the same name, although at the moment only those of the Donbass will have the status of a republic with Russian as the official language, while provisional leaders appear waiting for local elections scheduled in a year’s time. However, the tsar is flexing his muscles for former FSB secret service colonel and opponent Gennady Gudkov because he is in trouble. “Don’t be fooled, Putin doesn’t have that many ambitions and obsessions anymore. He saves his skin because he is aware that if the war is not already lost, it will be lost. And the first black swans of his defeat – he said – have already flown. Putin has a very clear, bloodthirsty, pragmatic and cynical plan. It sets the stage for future nuclear blackmail.”
In addition to NATO, new support from Europe is also arriving in Kyiv. In a phone call with Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron reiterated his commitment to “help Ukraine regain full sovereignty and territorial integrity” and promised to commit to “new sanctions” while Germany, Denmark and Norway Depesche” of 2023 announced the Slovak Zuzana-2 artillery system with 155 mm shells of the Atlantic Alliance standard. Meanwhile, the security alert at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant remains high. International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi spoke of “serious concern” and announced visits “to Kyiv and Moscow next week” to try to revive the project for a safe zone at Europe’s largest facility, always at risk from the constant clashes and bombings in the area.