The Kremlin on Tuesday appeared to double down on Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear warnings.
" is at its highest level since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when many feared a nuclear war might be imminent. Above, Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the plenary session of the Commonwealth of the Independent States Summit on October 14, 2022, in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe Program at the CSIS, told Newsweek that if Ukraine keeps making gains"you could perhaps see Russia get very serious about making nuclear threats."The Kremlin on Tuesday appeared to double down on Putin's nuclear warnings, saying that four Ukrainian regions which Putin claimed to have annexed last month are under the protection of its nuclear arsenal. "All these territories are inalienable parts of the Russian Federation and they are all protected. Their security is provided for at the same level as [it is for] the rest of Russia's territory," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when pressed on whether the four regions were under Russia's nuclear umbrella. Max Bergmann, the director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies , toldhe believes Putin is now"desperate for some sort of way to try to turn this conflict around." "There's a lot of frustration that you have, if you're Russian, this huge reserve of nuclear weapons, which is sort of now your claim to great power status. But they're kind of irrelevant—you can't really use them, all you can do is sort of threaten to use them," he said. Bergmann assessed that if Ukraine continues to make major gains and is approaching Crimea,"that's the scenario where you could perhaps see Russia get very serious about making nuclear threats."
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