'..the ’tactical use’ of RU nuclear weapons would end the Russian state as we know it.'
- Chuck Pfarrer (
Source, September 30, 2022)
'Ukraine is not afraid of winning against Russia..''..the Ukrainians have hinted they would respond to a nuclear strike by increasing their operations against Russian territory. “This will not stop them, and then they will spread the fighting, also. At the moment, they are rather conservative [about] hitting targets on Russian soil.
Such a decision to take the war to more Russian territory would represent a significant watershed for Kyiv, as Ukrainian operations in Russia have focused largely on Russian supply depots near the current war zone. The Ukrainian theory of the case, according to this official, is that Russia does not have the conventional forces available to defend those other regions, and thus, a counteroffensive would punish Putin’s use of nuclear weapons in a way that might not leave him good options to respond.
“There are not significant fortification lines on [Russia's] own soil because they have calculated that the Ukrainians are not intruding there,” the senior European official said. "So if Russia thinks that they [can] start to use tactical nukes against Ukrainians, and Ukrainians are spreading the fight into Russian soil.”
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“Ukraine is not afraid of winning against Russia.." '
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Ukraine: Risk of Russian tactical nuclear strike is 'very high', September 29, 2022
Context'Crimea is Ukraine. Donetsk is Ukraine. Kherson is Ukraine. Luhansk is Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine..'(Complete withdrawal from Ukraine (Crimea and the Donbas)) - '[Ukraine has] more manpower overall .. one million [soldiers] .. but we still lack armored vehicles and heavy weapons..'(Complete withdrawal from Ukraine (Crimea and the Donbas)) - '..large-scale retreat [of Russian troops recommended].'