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“We are facing a direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon”: how Russia almost committed the worst against Ukraine in 2022
Russia set to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine in 2022? This is what emerges from an article in the New York Times, based on secret conversations.
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin. – AFP
By Sudinfo Published on 03/11/2024 at 3:11 p.m.
The fear of nuclear war has once again loomed over Europe since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Just recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke of a “real risk of nuclear conflict”. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, for his part, reacted firmly to this threat, assuring “that we should not allow ourselves to be intimidated”.
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In a recent article, the American newspaper The New York Times explains that the threat was on the verge of becoming a reality at the start of the war in Ukraine. According to secret conversations including US President Joe Biden, it was said that “for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, we face a direct threat of the use of a nuclear weapon if things continue on this way. “.
Conversations within the Russian military were also intercepted, supporting this possibility. “Most alarming was a conversation in which one of Russia’s top military commanders explicitly discussed the logistics of detonating a weapon on the battlefield,” writes the New York Times.
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