Russia submitted a formal letter to NATO threatening nuclear strikes on alliance decision-making centers if Kaliningrad is isolated — as Brussels calls it rhetoric and a British TV show is blamed for sparking the crisis.
On Wednesday, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov accused the U.S. of “playing with fire” and engaging in a hot “hybrid war” with Russia and blamed Washington for increasing nuclear tensions.
In a speech on Tuesday, commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a message to the U.S. and its allies that the West cannot stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Buried in a recently published New York Times deep dive into the last 10 months of the war in Ukraine is a little-known fact – Ukraine’s military and intelligence division attempted to assassinate the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General Valery Gerasimov against the concerns of U.S. officials that it would lead to extreme Russian military escalation.
Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, made his second call in three days to U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, on Sunday. The subject of the call was a bizarre accusation from Putin claiming that the Ukrainian military is preparing to provoke Russia by detonating a radioactive “dirty bomb.” Shoigu made similar calls to other Western countries including Britain, France, and Turkey. Lloyd purportedly told Shoigu that he “rejected any pretext for Russian escalation.”
At a Democratic fundraiser Thursday, President Joe Biden cautioned those in attendance that nuclear war with Russia could be a possibility telling the crowd, “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis.”
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Will The Ukraine Conflict Lead To Nuclear War?