Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “spiritual son” calls for Putin to consider striking Ukraine with low-yield nuclear weapons amid the escalating war between Russia and Ukraine.
Putin’s Chechen warlord Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded Moscow to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine after Russian forces retreated from the city of Lyman.
Just on Saturday, the Ukrainian forces encircled the strategic eastern city of Lyman and humiliated the Kremlin.
Information reported by Russia’s own Tass and RIA news agencies, revealed that the troops have already fled Lyman.
On Saturday, the strongman leader of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said Mr. Putin should consider using “low-yield nuclear weapons” in Ukraine, becoming the first prominent Russian official to openly call for such a strike. https://t.co/J5i2Xa0Goq
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“In my personal opinion, more drastic measures should be taken, up to the declaration of martial law in the border areas and use of low-yield nuclear weapons,” Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel.
Although other top allies of Putin, including former president Dmitry Medvedev, suggested that Russia may need to resort to nuclear weapons, Putin’s Chechen warlord Kadyrov’s call was the most urgent and explicit.
Moreover, following the report, Washington released an official statement and vowed to respond decisively to any use of nuclear weapons and warned Moscow about the “catastrophic consequences” it would face.
The retreat in Lyman comes after Russian citizens blasted Putin for his partial mobilization of reservists to beef up his forces in Ukraine.
“I cannot explain this surrender in military terms. The problem is a system of lies, reports of a good situation [when the reality is bad]. This rot comes from the top down.” Military commander and normally loyalist MP Andrey Gurulev, said.
The Military commander also claimed the Russian forces were heroes led by self-serving donkeys
In response to Gurulev, Kadyrov claimed that there is ‘no place for nepotism in the army’ and labeled Colonel-General Alexander Lapin, who is in charge of Russia’s forces fighting in the region, ‘mediocre’.
According to Kadyrov, the Colonel-General “did not provide the communication, interaction and supply of ammunition to pro-Russian troops in Lyman, a town in the eastern Donetsk region that Moscow annexed a day earlier.”
“I would have demoted Lapin to the rank of private, deprived him of his awards and, with a machine gun in his hands, sent him to the front lines to wash away his shame in blood,” Kadyrov added.
