In their opinion, the Russian nuclear threat still looms over Ukraine.
Russia resorted to nuclear threats< /strong> throughout the war that it unleashed against Ukraine. Especially in the first months, there were widespread concerns in the West that Moscow could use tactical nuclear weapons or stage a nuclear demonstration. did not do However, she warned that “the threat has not disappeared”.
In turn, Dartmouth University management professor Daryl Press expressed his belief that the Kremlin is afraid that the war it unleashed against Ukraine could endanger Vladimir Putin's regime.
“First, Putin and his administration are afraid , that the war could endanger the existence of the regime. And secondly, they may decide that the USA is exactly trying to overthrow the regime. If they feel that the threat is real, then there may be an escalation with the use of nuclear weapons,” the Press explained.
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In turn, Tong Zhao, a researcher at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Center, believes that the risk of such an escalation is quite low. However, he is convinced that there is a scenario in which Moscow can resort to a nuclear strike.
“This could happen if the war is superimposed on some serious upheavals inside Russia. Then an existential threat to the regime may emerge. And here it is not known what the Kremlin will do. A lot will also depend on what position the US will take, how it will declare its intentions,” the expert is convinced.
Tong Zhao also noted that Russian nuclear threats have worked to some extent. In his opinion, they still forced the USA and other NATO countries to behave more restrained in supporting Ukraine.
Why does Russia resort to nuclear blackmail and what should Ukraine know? Read more about this in the article by the head of the department of the National Institute of Strategic Studies Oleksiy Izhak for ZN.UA.
