Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Russia reportedly still has the ability to launch its nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine. This step will be taken if the Kiev army continues to put pressure on the positions of the Moscow army.
Max Bergmann, director of the European Program for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told Newsweek that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is now desperate. He is said to be looking for ways to reverse this situation, one of them with nuclear weapons.
“There is a lot of frustration you have. If you are Russian, this huge stockpile of nuclear weapons, which is now your claim to be a great power, is somewhat irrelevant. You cannot actually use them. All you can do is threaten. to use them. “he said News weekThursday (10/20/2022).
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Bergmann added that he believes Putin is more likely to use nuclear weapons or threatens to do so if the partial mobilization of Russian reserves proves ineffective in this war with Ukraine.
“If Ukraine continues to make big gains and moves closer to Crimea, this is a scenario where you could see Russia taking nuclear threats seriously.”
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army has been carrying out retaliatory attacks since the beginning of September in the Lyman regions to the east and Kherson to the south. They are even closer to the territory that Russia conquered in the referendum that was held recently.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also promised to take back the Crimean peninsula in southern Ukraine. The territory was annexed to Russia in 2014.
At the same time, Putin last month threatened that Russia was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia’s “territorial integrity”.
The Kremlin doubled Putin’s nuclear alarm on Tuesday. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that four Ukrainian territories captured by Moscow were under the protection of his nuclear arsenal.
“All these territories are an inalienable part of the Russian Federation and they are all protected. Their security is provided at the same level as (for) other Russian territories,” Peskov said.
Given this situation, US President Joe Biden said on October 6 that the risk of a nuclear “Armageddon” was at its highest level since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. At the time, many feared that a nuclear war was imminent.
Not only Biden, Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment (Kemenko Marves), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, also said that with the unpredictable situation of the war between Russia and Ukraine, the world has been obscured by the potential of a nuclear war. .
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