Putin rules out possibility of Russia using nukes in Ukraine

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied having any plans to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine. However, he said that the West’s stated attempts to establish global dominance are bound to fail.

Putin said it would be futile for Russia to use nuclear weapons to attack Ukraine while speaking at a gathering of worldwide specialists on foreign policy.

“We see no need for that,” Putin said. “There is no point in that, neither political, nor military.”

Putin accused the US and its allies of seeking to dictate their terms to other countries in a “dangerous, brutal, and ugly” conquest game in a lengthy speech filled with diatribes against them.

Putin, who deployed his troops into Ukraine on February 24, has claimed that Washington and its allies are making extensive efforts to impose their will on others through what they refer to as a “rules-based world order.”

He said, “The West is no longer able to dictate its will to the humankind but still tries to do it, and the majority of nations no longer want to tolerate it.”

The Russian president claimed that the Western policies will foment more chaos, adding that “he who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind.”

Putin claimed that “humankind now faces a choice: accumulate a load of problems that will inevitably crush us all or try to find solutions that may not be ideal but working and could make the world more stable and secure.”

The Russian leader claimed that while his country is not hostile to the West, it will continue to reject any attempt by Western neo-liberal elites to impose their will on Russia.

“Their goal is to make Russia more vulnerable and turn it into an instrument for fulfilling their geopolitical tasks, they have failed to achieve it and they will never succeed,” Putin said.

Putin reiterated his long-standing assertion that Russians and Ukrainians are one people and once more disparaged Ukraine as an “artificial state” that had been given historical Russian territory by Communist leaders during the Soviet era.

The Russian leader reiterated Moscow’s baseless assertion that Ukraine was planning to explode a radioactive dirty bomb in order to frame Russia in a false flag operation. Ukraine has denied the charges, and its Western partners have labelled them as “transparently false.”

Putin acknowledged that he considers the losses Russia has incurred in the conflict in Ukraine “all the time,” but he insisted that Moscow has been left with no other option as a result of NATO’s refusal to rule out potential Ukraine membership and Kyiv’s refusal to abide by a peace agreement for its separatist conflict in the country’s east.

He asserted that his “special military operation” had gone according to schedule and denied underestimating the Ukrainian government’s capacity for resistance.

Putin acknowledged the difficulties brought on by Western sanctions, but asserted that Russia had shown itself to be resolute in the face of outside pressure and had grown more unified.