Putin orders Nuclear forces to be on high alert!!

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that he was putting the Russian military’s “deterrent forces” on alert, which could include a nuclear component, on the fourth day of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

“I order the defense minister and the chief of the General Staff to put the deterrent forces of the Russian army on special combat alert,” Putin said in a televised meeting with his military chiefs.



For his part, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmitro Kuleba, warned that the alerting of Russian nuclear forces is intended to “pressure” Ukraine, but nevertheless, he stated that his country “will not capitulate” to Moscow.

In a videoconference, in addition to denouncing Russia’s “deterrence attempt” by nuclear force, he said: “We will not surrender, we will not capitulate, we will not give up a single inch of our territory.”

Referring to planned talks with Moscow on the Ukraine-Belarus border, Kuleba said the Ukrainians would come to this meeting “to hear what Russia has to say.”

“What we are willing to discuss is how to stop this war and end the occupation of our territories,” he continued.

In the event of a nuclear war, “it would be a great catastrophe for the whole world”, but this threat “will not break us”, Kuleba concluded.

Meanwhile, the United States on Sunday accused Putin of “manufacturing threats” by placing its nuclear deterrent forces on high alert amid the Ukraine crisis.

“This is a pattern of President Putin that we have seen throughout this conflict: fabricating threats that don’t exist to justify more aggression,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told ABC when asked about Moscow announcement.