{"id":73900,"date":"2025-05-04T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/73900\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T13:03:08","slug":"moscow-has-means-to-bring-ukraine-war-to-logical-conclusion-putin-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/73900\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow has means to bring Ukraine war to \u2018logical conclusion,\u2019 Putin says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the interview, Putin said there would be \u201cno need\u201d to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict. Responding to a question about Ukrainian strikes on Russia<\/a>, he said: “There has been no need to use those [nuclear] weapons … and I hope they will not be required.”<\/p>\n

In November, Putin signed a revamped version of Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine<\/a>, which spelt out the circumstances under which he would use his atomic arsenal<\/a>, the world\u2019s biggest. The document lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike<\/a> in response to a broader range of conventional attacks.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Putin announced<\/a> a temporary three-day ceasefire starting on May 8 to mark the end of World War II. In response, Ukraine\u2019s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called<\/a> for the ceasefire to last at least 30 days, reiterating a proposal<\/a> by Kyiv that Moscow has not taken up.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said<\/a> on Friday that Russia\u2019s announcement of a one-sided 72-hour ceasefire is a \u201ctheatrical performance,\u201d<\/a> and just an attempt to create a \u201csoft atmosphere\u201d ahead of Russia\u2019s celebrations.<\/p>\n

Late Saturday, Zelenskyy said that Kyiv is “ready to move toward a ceasefire as soon as possible \u2014 even starting today \u2014 if Russia is ready to take reciprocal steps<\/a> \u2014 to establish complete silence, a lasting ceasefire of at least 30 days.” <\/p>\n

However, “currently, the intensity of Russian strikes indicates nothing but Russia\u2019s desire to continue fighting,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Putin, who has met four times in as many months with U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff, continues to reject the U.S. proposal<\/a> for ending the war which would freeze the conflict along the current battle lines and thus give Russia significant territorial gains<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the interview, Putin said there would be \u201cno need\u201d to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine conflict.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2594,6178,473,32,13,2452,12,8041,332,5549,811,7070,14,657,49,333,2601,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-73900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-conflict","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-media","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-nuclear-weapons","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-safety","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-steve-witkoff","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-vladimir-putin","24":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","25":"tag-war","26":"tag-war-in-ukraine","27":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114449704834210477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}