In Washington, Putin’s Nuclear Threats are Raising Alarm
Russian President Vladimir V. Putin appeared on screen in Moscow on Friday as he spoke about the fake annexation of four regions of Ukraine.
In a speech on Friday, Mr Putin raised the prospect again, branding the United States and Nato as enemies bent on Russia’s collapse and reiterating that he would use “all available means” to defend Russian territory – which he now declared included four provinces. eastern Ukraine.
Putin reminded the world of President Harry S. Truman’s decision 77 years ago to drop atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, adding: “By the way, they set a precedent.” On Saturday, the strongman leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said Mr. Putin should consider using ” low-yield nuclear weapons” in Ukraine, becoming the first major Russian official to openly call for such a strike.
