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After Mr. Medvedev’s statement, the CIA feared that Russia would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. This is one of the first places Russian forces tried to gain control after starting the military operation in Ukraine on February 24 – Photo: REUTERS

“Given the possibility that President Putin and the Russian leadership are desperate and the failures they have faced so far, militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by the use of tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons,” CIA director William Burns told students at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA) on April 14.

Earlier, the Kremlin said it had put Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert shortly after the start of a military operation in Ukraine on February 24, according to AFP news agency.

However, Burns said that so far the US has not seen “much factual evidence” of the deployment of nuclear weapons that is cause for concern.

“Obviously we’re very concerned. I know President Biden is deeply concerned about avoiding a third world war and avoiding reaching the threshold of a possible nuclear conflict,” Mr. Burns said. .

Currently, Russia possesses many tactical nuclear weapons, which are less powerful than the atomic bombs that the US dropped on Hiroshima, Japan during World War II.

According to AFP news agency, Russia’s military doctrine has a principle called “escalation to de-escalate”, which will use low-yield nuclear weapons to strike first to regain the initiative if all Things go awry in a conventional conflict with the West.

In another development, on April 14, former Russian president and former prime minister Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO that if Sweden and Finland joined this military alliance, Russia would have to strengthen its defense capabilities. in the region, including the deployment of nuclear weapons and hypersonic missiles.

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