Putin's aide warns Russia could deploy nukes in Ukraine as 'he sees no way out'

31 July 2023 , 09:31

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (Image: SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Vladimir Putin's brutal aide and ally has said Russia may have no choice soon but to deploy nuclear missiles in Ukraine, as he sees "no other" way out.

Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said that if Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive against Moscow’s invasion captures Russian territory, then the Kremlin army would be forced to act. He said on the Telegram messaging app: "If we imagine that the offensive of the Ukrainians with the support of NATO was successful and they seized part of our land, then we would have to, by virtue of the rules of the decree of the President of Russia, go for the use of nuclear weapons."

Deputy Head of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev (EKATERINA SHTUKINA/SPUTNIK/GOVERNMENT PRESS SERVICE POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

His remarks were the latest in a string of nuclear threats made during Moscow’s invasion by the key ally of the warmonger President. He continued: "There simply wouldn’t be any other solution. Our enemies should pray to our fighters that they do not allow the world to go up in nuclear flames. Just imagine that the offensive… in tandem with NATO, succeeded and ended up with part of our land being taken away. Then we would have to use nuclear weapons by virtue of the stipulations of the Russian Presidential Decree."

His last nuclear threats were not too long ago, when during Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed coup he said the rebellion could lead to a nuclear war. Before that, Medvedev had said that the war could be "brought to an end within a few days" by doing what "the Americans did in 1945 when they deployed nuclear weapons and bombed two Japanese cities - Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

This morning, Russian missiles slammed into the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, killing at least one person and likely trapping others beneath the rubble. The two missiles struck an apartment building, destroying a section of it between the fourth and ninth floors and a university building, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

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Russian officials insist they only take aim at legitimate military targets, but bombardment with missiles, artillery and drones on civilian buildings has become commonplace. That approach has ramped up during Kyiv’s recently launched counteroffensive that is trying to drive Russian forces out of occupied areas. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that "in recent days, the enemy has been stubbornly attacking cities, city centres, shelling civilian objects and housing."

Rachel Hagan