The US plans to deal with Russia using the most powerful weapons in Ukraine

New York Times Citing an informed source on March 23, this special task force with the name “Tiger” was established by the administration of US President Joe Biden on February 28, just 4 days after Russia opened the campaign. military in Ukraine. This task force, consisting of US national security officials, meets behind closed doors three times a week to discuss options for dealing with potentially serious scenarios for the Russia-Ukraine conflict such as an accident. Nuclear attack, chemical attack, biological attack.

The group also looked at what measures the United States could take if the conflict extends beyond Ukraine’s borders and spreads to NATO territory, for example Russia could attack Western arms trucks that aid Ukraine.

The countermeasures that the “Tiger” team offers will include scenarios such as imposing tough sanctions on Russia, increasing forces in NATO countries, arming the Ukrainian army. In particular, this group will consider “red lines” forcing NATO to deploy military forces in Ukraine.

In recent weeks, the United States and its NATO allies have warned that Russia could use its most powerful weapons for a military campaign in Ukraine and did not rule out the possibility of a nuclear conflict.

In this regard, in an interview with CNN on March 22, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov affirmed that Russia will only use nuclear weapons if the existence of the country is threatened.

“We have a concept of homeland security and this concept is public, which covers all the cases where nuclear weapons are allowed. So if there’s an existential threat to your country’s country,” he said. us, the nuclear arsenal can be used in our way,” Peskov said.

Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24 with a statement aimed at “demilitarizing” and “de-fascistizing” Ukraine. Moscow insists that in this operation, it only uses high-precision weapons to attack military targets in Ukraine. Recently, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that it used cruise missiles and Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to destroy Ukrainian military facilities.

Western officials believe that Russia’s use of hypersonic missiles in Ukraine may be because it is running out of long-range precision weapons. Some argue that the decision to fire Kinzhal may be Russia’s way of signaling to the US and NATO that Moscow is ready to increase the use of military power in Ukraine. However, experts say, Kinzhal is unlikely to change the political situation because Russia does not have too many missiles of this type.