What Happens If Putin Nukes Ukraine?Diana Glebova
Associate Editor
March 10, 2022 7:01 PM ET
Russia has repeatedly pointed to its nuclear arsenal while waging war on Ukraine, seemingly alluding that nukes could be on the table to counter what it perceives as “Western aggression.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s nuclear forces to be placed on a “special regime of combat duty” while speaking with top military officials Feb. 27, in response to Western economic sanctions and “aggressive statements” from NATO countries. A few days prior, Putin said that the West would face consequences “such as you have never seen in your entire history” if it intervened in Ukraine. Belarus, Russia’s neighbor that has served as a launchpad for Russian soldiers, voted to abandon its non-nuclear status Feb. 28.
Despite Russia’s rhetoric, President Joe Biden said that the U.S. should not worry about nuclear war. Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, denied that Russia was likely to launch nuclear weapons, saying that Putin placing them on high alert was “a kind of deterrence.”
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