President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he expects Vladimir Putin to leverage his warnings over nuclear weapons as a way to divide Ukraine’s allies, saying Russia’s atomic threat is a “fragile point” in the alliance.
As Russia’s invasion approaches its 19th month, Zelenskiy said he expected the Kremlin leader to step up threats over the winter, moving nuclear weapons to different positions and attempting to trigger blackouts in war-battered Ukraine, Zelenskiy said.
Putin has repeatedly warned the US and its allies to stay out of the conflict since he ordered the invasion last year, hinting at Russia’s willingness to use any weapon in its arsenal. Moscow deployed tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus in June. It also prompted Elon Musk to curtail his Starlink satellite service to prevent Ukraine from using it for a sea-drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in annexed Crimea last year, according to excerpts from a new biography by Walter Isaacson. Musk worried the move could become a Pearl Harbor-like event and trigger nuclear retaliation if Russian ships — which have since bombarded Ukrainian cities with cruise missiles — were attacked, according to the book.
The Ukrainian military has meanwhile cited grinding progress in recent weeks as its forces seek to break Russian defensive lines on the southern front. Zelenskiy acknowledged that the counteroffensive is going slowly.
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