*NEWS spotlight* Volodymyr's nuke warning
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- Apr 18, 2022
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Updated: Apr 19, 2022
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the public to "prepare" for Putin to use nuclear weapons in his invasion of Ukraine, and advised that air raid shelters and anti-radiation treatment be available in event of a catastrophe.
The Russian military has suffered a number of defeats, including being forced to abandon from the area surrounding Kyiv and its suburbs due to assault by the Ukrainian forces. Officials from the US have repeatedly alerted that Putin may turn to increasingly dangerous behaviour, especially after seeing major setbacks in its invasion. On Thursday, CIA Director William Burns warned of a Russian "possible resort to tactical nuclear weapons or low-yield nuclear weapons."Russia is estimated to have roughly 4,477 warheads at present time.
Experts say that if Russia launched an assault on a Nato member, there may be retaliatory attacks from other Nato states, sparking a battle that would be...
"orders of magnitude worse than the Second World War,"
Professor Malcolm Chalmers, Deputy director general of Royal United Services Institute
Noor Munawar


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