With his threat to use nuclear weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin is “primarily targeting Germany”. That says the head of the Munich Security Conference. Meanwhile, Putin’s bloodhound, the Chechen Ramzan Kadyrov, criticizes the weak warfare of the Russians. what happened tonight
According to the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, Russian President Vladimir Putin primarily wants to exert influence on Germany with his nuclear threats in the Ukraine war. “With the threat of nuclear weapons, he is primarily aiming at Germany,” Heusgen told the newspapers of the Bayern media group. With this threat, Putin is trying to stir up fears and weaken support for Ukraine. “We’re back in Cold War logic.”
The Americans have made it clear to Moscow that the use of nuclear weapons would have catastrophic consequences for Russia, Heusgen said. “I cannot imagine that there are suicidal Russian generals who would implement such an order.” In addition, the Kremlin chief does not want to go into worldwide isolation. Even China cannot allow the use of nuclear weapons to go through.
Kadyrov again expressed his dissatisfaction with the course of the war. “We used to say that we were conducting a special military operation on the territory of Ukraine, but the war is already taking place on our territory,” Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel on Tuesday. He is very dissatisfied with it.
At the same time he threatened Ukraine’s western support countries with annihilation. Martial law has already been imposed in regions bordering Ukraine, Kadyrov said. “But they continue to shoot at peaceful citizens and civilian objects.” Russia’s response to this was “weak”. In retaliation, Kadyrov demanded that Ukrainian cities be wiped out “so that we can see the distant horizon.”
Kadyrov’s displeasure could have been triggered by reports that more than 100 soldiers from Chechnya had been hit by artillery in the Russian-occupied Cherson region. This was announced by the Ukrainian General Staff in its evening situation report. According to several consistent reports, Kadyrov’s soldiers are said to have been hit and buried. The information could not be verified independently.
Russia brought its allegations that the Ukrainian government wanted to detonate a nuclear-contaminated bomb to the UN Security Council. On Tuesday there was a corresponding discussion of the most powerful UN body behind closed doors, as Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanski announced after the meeting.
Further details were not initially known. Despite Western rebuffs, Russia persists in claiming that Kyiv wants to discredit Moscow with a “dirty” bomb.
In Ukraine, the Kiev troops want to retake more territory. Both sides have deployed many new soldiers to the front in recent weeks. At the political level, Kyiv is meanwhile turning its attention to Europe: President Emmanuel Macron is receiving Chancellor Olaf Scholz in France – the meeting also deals with defense policy issues.
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