Vladimir Putin believes that nuclear weapons will never be used. “I start from the assumption that the world will never reach this point,” said the Russian president, interviewed at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg. Russia, according to the Kremlin leader, “is not brandishing” nuclear weapons as a threat. “The use of such weapons is possible only in exceptional cases, which have not yet occurred,” he said, adding that nuclear tests could be conducted, “but there is no need yet.” «We have a nuclear doctrine and everything is written there… The use (of nuclear weapons) is possible in an exceptional case, in the case of a threat to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country. I don’t think a case like this has happened,” he said. «If, God forbid – he added – there should be some attack, everyone should realize that Russia has systems to prevent a missile attack. The United States has one. No one else has such a developed system. Europe does not have a developed system, it is defenseless in this sense.”
«We will win in Ukraine, it’s clear»
Russia’s supply of missiles to adversaries of Western countries is not imminent. “It won’t be tomorrow,” Putin said, reserving however for Moscow the right to do so in response to Kiev’s bombing of Russian territory with weapons supplied by the West. «Some say that all wars end with an agreement that can be a military victory or a defeat. We want to achieve victory and we will achieve it, it is clear”, said the Russian president. According to him, “a usurpation of power” is underway in Kiev. «Apparently – he declared – a preliminary and superficial analysis of Ukrainian legislation shows that the executive authorities have lost their legitimacy». The Russian leader is probably referring to the martial law in force in the enemy country (due to the war), with the de facto postponement of the elections. Not only that, the Kremlin’s number one has said that there will be no need for a new general mobilization.
