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Putin says Ukraine war will ‘take a while’ and raise nuclear risk

Putin says Ukraine war will ‘take a while’ and raise nuclear risk

Putin says Ukraine war will ‘take a while’ and raise nuclear risk

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  • Putin warned Russia’s Human Rights Council of “increasing” nuclear danger.
  • Moscow will use “all possible tools” in a “military operation,” says Putin.

Nearly 10 months after his invasion of Ukraine began, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday acknowledged that the conflict is “going to take a while,” as he also warned of the “increasing” threat of nuclear war.

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Speaking at a meeting of Russia’s Human Rights Council at the Kremlin, Putin said Moscow will fight by “all available means at our disposal,” in what he insists on calling a “special military operation,” but also said he saw no immediate need to mobilize more troops.

“With regard to the protracted nature of the special military operation and its results, of course, it’s going to take a while, perhaps,” he said.

Putin also stated that, while he could not completely rule out the first use of nuclear weapons, he saw Russia’s nuclear arsenal as a deterrent rather than a provocation.

“As for the idea that Russia wouldn’t use such weapons first under any circumstances, then it means we wouldn’t be able to be the second to use them either – because the possibility to do so in case of an attack on our territory would be very limited,” he said.

“Nevertheless, we have a strategy… namely, as a defense, we consider weapons of mass destruction, nuclear weapons – it is all based around the so-called retaliatory strike,” he said. “That is, when we are struck, we strike in response.”

The Russian leader claimed that while the United States had moved many of its nuclear weapons to European soil and still plans to do so, Russia has not done so and “will protect its allies with all the means at its disposal, if necessary.”

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“We have not gone crazy. We are aware of what nuclear weapons are. We have these means, they are in a more advanced and modern form than those of any other nuclear country, this is obvious,” he said. “But we are not going to brandish these weapons like a razor, running around the world.”

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