In an interview with BFMTV, Piotr Tolstoy was very confident about the consequences of the war in Ukraine and assured that the Russian army would take the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
“The Russian army will take Kyiv.” Questioned on BFMTV on Monday, Vice-President of the Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) Piotr Tolstoy expressed great confidence in the future advances of the Russian army in Ukraine and assured that Moscow would not need to use nuclear weapons to fight the battle to finish ambushing his neighbors.
“We have the opportunity to increase our military efforts, to strengthen our armies with the mobilized people,” he declared through our antenna, “we have all the means without using tactical nuclear weapons.”
The statement follows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats in recent months to use nuclear weapons in the conflict, but more importantly the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. The latter called on the Russian army on Saturday to use “low-power nuclear weapons” in Ukraine.
“Sure and sure we won’t use nuclear weapons”
“I’m sure we won’t use nuclear weapons, we have a very clear doctrine on that,” Piotr Tolstoy said on BFMTV. “We can only use it if the entire Russian territory is threatened,” he adds, pointing out that according to Russia, the regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia now belong to Russia.
For Moscow, therefore, the recapture of the city of Lyman (which is part of the annexed territories) by Ukrainian soldiers “is an attack on Russian territory and this will have serious consequences for the current regime in Ukraine,” the deputy chairman explains to the Duma. He also says he is very optimistic about the next advances by the Russian army on the Ukrainian side.
“We will go much further than you think, don’t worry, give it time and the Russian army will take Kyiv, I have no doubt about that,” he concludes.
Salomé Vincendon Journalist BFMTV