Putin says Russia won’t need to use nuclear weapons for victory in Ukraine | BBC News

President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia won’t need to use nuclear weapons to achieve victory in Ukraine though he didn’t rule out Moscow carrying out a nuclear test he was speaking at an economic Forum in St Petersburg our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports from there Vladimir Putin the West accuses Vladimir Putin of nuclear saber rattling over the war in Ukraine at least today the saber was rattling a little less the use of nuclear weapons is possible in the event of an exceptional threat to the sovereignty and territorial Integrity of our country in exceptional cases I don’t think this is such a case right now there is no necessity for that but these pictures send a different message Russia has been holding tactical Nuclear drills near Ukraine’s border a not so subtle hint to Kiev and to the west and President Putin is warning he may send conventional long range missiles to other countries for strikes on Western targets his response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory with Western missiles but would he actually do this some people in the west say we’ve heard it before from Russia we’ve heard saber rling the last two years and it’s a bluff yeah of course it’s always Bluff till the time when it’s not you can keep thinking that Russia is bluffing and then one day there’s no more Great Britain to love it and all this at an economic Forum where you can’t escape the geopolitics the last few days in St Petersburg have felt very strange on the one hand a giant International economic Forum Russia’s message business as usual but clearly it is not business as usual with Russia Waging War in Ukraine and soaring tensions between Russia and the west and in his standoff with the West Vladimir Putin seems to believe it will be the West that blinks first Steve Rosenberg BBC News St Petersburg

President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia won’t need to use nuclear weapons to achieve victory in Ukraine.

Ever since Russia’sinvasion of Ukraine, Moscow has been engaged in nuclear sabre-rattling, dropping a series of hints that trying to defeat a nuclear power like Russia could have disastrous consequences.

However the Russian President did not rule out Moscow carrying out a nuclear test.  He was speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg.

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  6. The Russian nuclear doctrine has a well-developed algorithm for the use of nukes, and that in the case of a certain degree of danger to the existence of Russia. This is practically determined by AI with a brain trust, so not one person as in the US. A tactical nuke can also be ordered by the commander of a larger battlefield, again in the case of a certain percentage of all losses, so it is not determined by the superior command as in the US.

  8. This just soft propaganda they think they can use nuclear weapons and still remain in Russia the moment the allies notice that Russia have activated a nuke then all allies will activate theirs toward Moscow and all Russian allies 😅 so they’re just playing with your weak mentality so that you may fear and protest against your government. But in reality Putin is afraid of nuclear the same way the west is because no one will win

  10. He is such a pathological liar. He threatened hundreds of times. He lies so much he cant remember which lie he told 😂😂

  16. Zelenskyy poor leadership.
    Dependent on NATO.
    NATO: Foreigner’s getting your Business.
    Putin doesn’t like Foreigners in his region. They brought missiles to his border. Thats NATO.
    Be a neighbor Ukraine. Man up
    Web cam meeting! 😂 Zelenskyy what get crushed 😂
    Ukraine wins when Zelenskyy is replaced

  19. Puny Putin, Coward, Short Man, little lying man. Puny, Lavrov, Peskov and Medvedev could make Russia a great country contributing to a unified world's growth through the multilateral sharing of knowledge, truth, science, humanitarian support and medical research. But NO, Puny Putler wants to destroy democracy in the democratic countries of the world.

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  27. Sadly for the Russians it won't be the West that blinks first. The West is run by psychopaths that are willing to start World War 3 defending a regime that was rated by the West as highly corrupt before the Russian invasion. A regime that was accused of stealing money and supporting Neo Nazis.

    Ukraine.

    It's utter madness. Putin is more rational.

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