Retired USMC intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with his YouTube channel: USA Tour of DutyThat Russia does not need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, as it can deal with the Ukrainian army without it.
The former intelligence officer was asked whether the Russian Federation would react other than launching a nuclear attack on Ukraine in case of full mobilization in this country.
“Russia will not use nuclear weapons. “I don’t understand why people don’t understand that,” he said.
According to Ritter, Kiev will not be able to increase the size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) due to the lack of resources to equip them. He added that the Ukrainian state “has nothing left”, so the idea of building power sounds absurd.
Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN will not apply Nuclear weapons in the situation in Ukraine.
Prior to that, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Political Affairs Colin Cole aforementionedHe believes that Russia will “almost” not use nuclear weapons in the conflict in Ukraine.