“Given the potential desperation of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the setbacks that they’ve faced so far, militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons,” Mr. It was the first time he discussed publicly a concern that has been much debated in the White House. Putin, facing a debacle in Ukraine, might use a tactical or low-yield nuclear weapon, though he stressed that he had seen no “practical evidence” that such a step was pending.
Burns, warned on Thursday of the possibility that Mr. On Thursday, the government warned that any such expansion of NATO would prompt an increased Russian military presence, including nuclear weapons, in the region. Its international isolation deepening, the Kremlin reacted ominously to the growing indications that Finland and Sweden would join the NATO alliance in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The devastation rained there has offered a dire warning of what may befall other cities in the event of a prolonged Russian siege, prompting a mass exodus of civilians from the Donbas.Ī destroyed residential building in Mariupol on Thursday. Ukraine continues to brace for a Russian offensive in the eastern Donbas region - where Moscow has said it will focus its war efforts after its failure to capture the capital, Kyiv - while Russian forces squeeze the shrinking pocket of resistance in the ruined southern port of Mariupol. Taken together, the steps are bound to raise fuel and electricity prices in Europe, potentially disrupting the economy and provoking a political backlash.
That comes on top of a previously announced ban on imports of Russian coal. The European Union has long resisted calls to reduce its energy dependency on Russia, but officials revealed on Thursday that an oil embargo is in the works and is likely to be adopted in the coming weeks. Moscow also faces the possible loss of European markets in fossil fuels, which are providing billions of dollars a month to support its war effort. It would also give a lift to Ukrainian hopes, while demonstrating the defenders’ homegrown technological capacity and exposing an embarrassing weakness in the Russian navy’s antimissile defenses.
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