BREAKING WORLD WAR III NEWS: PUTIN SAYS THE UKRAINE WAR IS GOING TO “TAKE A WHILE,” AS HE WARNS NUCLEAR RISK IS INCREASING
Nearly 10 months after his invasion of Ukraine began, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged that the conflict is “going to take a while,” as he also warned of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war.
Speaking at a meeting of Russia’s Human Rights Council at the Kremlin, Putin said Moscow will fight by “all available means at our disposal,” in what he insists on calling a “special military operation,” but also said he saw no immediate need to mobilize more troops.
“With regard to the protracted nature of the special military operation and its results, of course, it’s going to take a while, perhaps,” he said.
And without categorically ruling out the first use of nuclear weapons, Putin said he viewed the Russian nuclear arsenal as a deterrent rather than a provocation.
“As for the idea that Russia wouldn’t use such weapons first under any circumstances, then it means we wouldn’t be able to be the second to use them either – because the possibility to do so in case of an attack on our territory would be very limited,” he said.
“Nevertheless, we have a strategy… namely, as a defense, we consider weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons – it is all based around the so-called retaliatory strike,” he said. “That is, when we are struck, we strike in response.”
The Russian leader said that the United States’ nuclear weapons were located in large numbers on European soil, while Russia had not transferred its nuclear weapons to other territories and is not planning to do so, but “will protect its allies with all the means at its disposal, if necessary.”
“We have not gone crazy. We are aware of what nuclear weapons are. We have these means, they are in a more advanced and modern form than those of any other nuclear country, this is obvious,” he said. “But we are not going to brandish these weapons like a razor, running around the world.”
‘Significant result’
Putin also said there is no need for additional mobilization of Russian troops at this point, saying suggestions for more deployments “simply do not make sense.”
Out of the 300,000 men called up for Russia’s partial mobilization, half are currently in Ukraine – and of those, only 77,000 are in combat units while the rest are in defense forces or training, he said.
Meanwhile, in response to a question, he described Moscow’s territorial gains as a “significant result for Russia.”
In September, Putin announced the annexation of four Ukrainian regions – Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – in a process that violated international law.
Source: CNN, Jessie Young, Katharina Krebs
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