Putin hopes to do without nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Putin hopes to do without nuclear weapons in Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin said in comments that were published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to lead the war in Ukraine . However, he hoped that the use of nuclear weapons would not be necessary.

The war in Ukraine and its consequences

Putin ordered the use of thousands Russian troops in the Ukraine. This has led to the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II and the most difficult confrontation between Moscow and the West since the deepest phase of the Cold War.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers have been fallen or injured. The US President Donald Trump repeatedly emphasized that he wanted to end the "bloodbath" that represents his government as a vocation between the United States and Russia.

nuclear escalation and Putin's perspective

In a film of state television, the Putin's 25-year rule as Russia's top guide, he was asked by a reporter about the risk of nuclear escalation in the Ukraine War. "They wanted to provoke us so that we made mistakes," said Putin, while he spoke in addition to a portrait of Tsar Alexander III, a conservative leader of the 19th century, who suppressed deviating opinions. "So far there has been no need to use these weapons ... and I hope that they will not be necessary."

"We have enough strength and means to bring what was started in 2022 to a logically required result." Trump has indicated in the past few weeks that he is frustrated about the absence of an agreement between Moscow and Kiev. The Kremlin, on the other hand, claims that the conflict is so complicated that a quick progress, as Washington wants, is difficult to achieve.

Putin's view of the West

former US President Joe Biden, Western European leader and Ukraine represent the invasion as imperialist land robbery and have repeatedly undertaken to defeat the Russian armed forces who control a fifth of Ukraine.

Putin, on the other hand, sees the war as a turning point in the relationships in Moscow to the West, which in his opinion has humiliated Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 by expanding NATO and penetrating what he regarded as Russia's sphere of influence

Trump warned that the conflict could develop into a third World War. The former CIA director William Burns said that at the end of 2022 there was a real risk that Russia could use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, an claim that Moscow rejected.

Putin's rule and public perception

Putin, a former KGB Lieutenant Colonel who took over the presidential office on the last day of 1999 from a stricken Boris Yeltsin, is the longest-ruling Kremlführer since Josef Stalin, who was in power for 29 years until his death in 1953

Russian dissidents - most of them are now either in prison or abroad - see a dictator in Putin who has built up a fragile system of personal rule that is based on blanket and corruption and leads Russia towards decline and unrest.

, on the other hand, his followers, who, according to Russian surveys, state an approval rate of over 85%, consider Putin as a rescuer who defended himself against an arrogant vest and ended the chaos that was accompanied by the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

private from the life of the president

In the carefully staged film of state television, which gave the viewers a rare look into the notorious life of the Russian president, it was shown how Putin Pralines and a fermented milk drink to Pavel Zarubin, a leading Kremlin correspondent, offered in his private Kremlin kitchen.

Putin remembered that during the north-east crisis in the Moscow Theater in 2002, when Chechen militant took over 900 people as hostages, he fell on his knees for the first time in prayer. More than 130 hostages were killed in this crisis.

"I don't feel like any politician," Putin said about his 25 years of power as President and Prime Minister. "I breathe the same air as millions of Russian citizens. This is very important. As long as God wants, it should stay that way as possible. And that should not disappear."