LOS ANGELES (Dagbladet): In a recent interview with CNN Putin’s spokesman admits Russia has not yet reached its military targets in Ukraine. And he does not want to rule out the country resorting to nuclear weapons.
It emerged when Peskov posed for an interview with CNN profile Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday. There he was asked what conditions were needed for Putin to use nuclear weapons.
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– We have domestic security as a concept, and it is public. You can read all the reasons why nuclear weapons can be used. So if there is an existential threat to our country, they can be used, says Peskov.
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Preparedness
“No matter who tries to stand in our way or even more so those who try to create threats to our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be something you have never seen in all history,” he said. Putin in a TV speech in February and announced that he had put the nuclear weapons on standby.
In the interview with CNN, Peskov says that Putin has not reached his goals yet. While Western intelligence claims that Russia’s invasion has stagnated and that they are struggling, Peskov nevertheless claims that what the Russian authorities describe as a “special military operation” is going as planned.
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– The special military operation is completely in accordance with the plans and intentions that were established in advance, Peskov says in the interview.
Putin’s demands
He also reiterated Putin’s demands.
“The main objectives of the operation are to get rid of the military potential of Ukraine to ensure that Ukraine is a neutral country, and to get rid of nationalist battalions,” Peskov said, adding that Ukraine must recognize that Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, is a part of Russia. And that the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk and Donetsk are independent states.
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Despite a very long list of reports that the Russian military has hit civilians in Ukraine, Peskov also claims that Russia has only attacked military targets.
Fear of escalation
On Tuesday, heavy fighting continued as Russian forces continued their attempt to capture the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Ukrainian forces also claim that they had managed to recapture a strategically important suburb of Kyiv. It could lead Putin to resort to even more violent means, he writes AP.
– Putin is standing with his back to the wall. And the more pressure he is, the more serious tactics he can use, says US President Joe Biden, before he travels to Europe this week.
He also reiterated that he believed Putin was planning to use chemical or biological weapons.
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Stopped humanitarian aid
On Tuesday, attacks continued around the capital Kyiv and the port city of Mariupol. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj on Tuesday accused Russia of not only obstructing a humanitarian convoy into Mariupol. Ukrainian sources tell the AP that Russian forces also seized 15 buses. The buses with drivers and aid workers are said to have been driven to an unknown location.
According to Zelensky, Russia had agreed in advance to release the convoy.
