Putin hopes to do without nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Putin hopes to do without nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Moskau - President Vladimir Putin expressed in a comment published on Sunday that Russia has sufficient strengths and resources to the war in ukraine bring. However, he hopes that it will not be necessary to use atomic weapons.

A look at the conflict

Putin ordered the sending of thousands Russian troops to Ukraine, which triggered the greatest country conflict in Europe since the Second World War and the greatest confrontation Moscow and the West have been represented since the low points of the Cold War.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed or injured, and the US President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that he would like to end the "bloodbath" between the war United States and Russia.

nuclear escalation

In a documentary film of state television about Putin's 25-year term as Russia's leading politician entitled “Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 Years”, Putin 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 was a portrait of Tsar Alexander III. Stand, a conservative ruler of the 19th century, which suppressed Dissens. "There was no need to use these weapons ... and I hope they are not needed."

the Kremlin at a glance

Trump has signaled for weeks that the failure of Moscow and Kiev to reach him to end the war frustrated. However, the Kremlin said that the conflict was so complicated that the rapid progress desired by Washington was difficult.

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

Putin seed the war as a turning point in the relationships in Moscow to the West, which was humiliated by Russia after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, by expanding NATO and entering what it was viewed as a Moscow sphere.

world politics in risk

Trump warned that the conflict for the Third World War could escalate. Former CIA director William Burns noted that at the end of 2022 there was a real risk that Russia could use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, an assertion that Moscow rejected.

Putin's rule

Putin, a former KGB Colonel lieutenant who was given the presidency by a sick Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, is the longest-reigning Kremlin leader since Josef Stalin, who ruled 29 years until his death in 1953

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

his supporters describe Putin, whose approval, according to Russian surveys, is over 85 %, as a rescuer who defended himself against an arrogant vest and ended the chaos that was accompanied by the decay of the Soviet Union 1991.

a personal insight

In the carefully staged film of state television, which gives the audience a rare insight into the notorious life of the Russian president, Putin was shown how he offers the Kremlin reporter Pavel Zarubin Pralines and a fermented Russian milk drink in his private Kremlin kitchen.

Putin said that during the north-east theater crisis in 2002 he knelt in prayer for the first time in Moscow, when Chechen militant took over 900 people as hostages. More than 130 hostages were killed.

"I don't feel like a politician," Putin said about his 25 years of power as President and Prime Minister. "I continue to breathe the same air as millions of Russian citizens. That is very important. God wants to last as long as possible. And it will not disappear."