“The Russian army will take Kyiv.” The vice president of the Duma (lower house of the Russian parliament) Piotr Tolstoy, questioned this Monday on BFMTV, was very confident in the future advance of the Russian army in Ukraine, assuring that Moscow did not need to use nuclear weapons to end up invading its neighbor.
“We have the possibility of reinforcing our military effort, of reinforcing our armies with the mobilized people,” he declared on our antenna, “we have all the means without using tactical nuclear weapons.”
This statement comes as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats in recent months to use nuclear weapons in the conflict, but above all the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. The latter called on the Russian army on Saturday to use “low-power nuclear weapons” in Ukraine.
“Surely and surely we are not going to use nuclear weapons”
“I am sure and sure that we are not going to use nuclear weapons, we have a very clear doctrine on this,” Pyotr Tolstoy said on BFMTV. “We can only use it if there is an existential threat to the entire Russian territory,” he adds, noting in passing that according to Russia, the Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions are now Russian.
For Moscow, therefore, the reconquest of the town of Lyman (which is part of the annexed territories) by Ukrainian soldiers is “an attack on Russian territory and this will have serious consequences for the current regime in Ukraine,” explains the vice president. of the Duma. He also says that he is very confident in the further advances of the Russian army on the Ukrainian side.
“We are going to go much further than you think, don’t worry, give it time and the Russian army will take Kyiv, I have no doubt about that,” he concludes.
Source: BFM TV
