Putin hopes not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Putin hopes not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

Moskau - President Vladimir Putin expressed in a comment published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to have the war in Ukraine bring. However, he hoped that it would not be necessary to use nuclear weapons.

Putin's war in Ukraine

Putin in February 2022 ordered the use of thousands of Russian troops in Ukraine and thus triggered the largest country conflict in Europe, as well as the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cold War.

The humanitarian costs of the war

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers were killed or injured. The US President Donald Trump repeatedly expressed the desire to end the "bloodbath", which in his opinion is interpreted as a representative between the United States and Russia.

atomic escalation risk

In a film of state television about Putin's 25-year rule as Russia's top guide entitled "Russia, Kremlin, Putin, 25 years", Putin was asked about the risk of a nuclear escalation of the Ukraine War. "They wanted to provoke us so that we made mistakes," said Putin, while speaking alongside a portrait of Tsar Alexander III, a conservative leader of the 19th century. "It was never necessary to use these weapons ... and I hope that they will not be needed."

Putin's point of view and power base

"We have enough strength and means to bring what was started in 2022 to take a logical degree, with the result that Russia needs." Trump has signaled for weeks that he is frustrated by the failure of Moscow and Kiev, conditions for the end of the war. However, the Kremlin has explained that the conflict is so complicated that the rapid progress that Washington wants is difficult.

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

Putin's geopolitical view

Putin sees the war as a turning point in the relationships in Moscow to the West, which in his opinion humiliated Russia in 1989 by increasing NATO and pushing himself into areas that he regarded as a moscow.

Trump warned that the conflict could develop into a third World War. The former CIA director William Burns pointed out in late 2022 that there was a real risk that Russia could use nuclear weapons against Ukraine, which was rejected by Moscow.

Putin's rule and survey values ​​

Putin, a former KGB Colonel lieutenant who was appointed to the presidential office by a sick Boris Jelzin 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 are either in prison or abroad - see Putin as a dictator who has built up a fragile system of personal rule, which is based on flattery and corruption and Russia leads to a course of expiry and unrest.

supporters represent Putin, who, according to Russian surveys, has approval values ​​of over 85 %, as a rescuer who defended himself against an arrogant vest and ended the chaos that was accompanied by the breakdown of the Soviet Union in 1991.

a personal insight into Putin's life

In the carefully staged film of state television, which offers viewers a rare insight into the notoriously sealed life of the Russian president, showed how Putin Chocolate and a fermented Russian milk drink to Pavel Zarubin, a leading Kremlin correspondent, offered in his private Kremlin cuisine.

Putin stated that during the north-east crisis in 2002, when Chechen militants took over 900 people as hostages, he knelt for the first time in prayer. Over 130 hostages were killed.

"I don't feel like a kind of 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. So God wants it to last as long as possible. And that it does not disappear."