Russia does not use nuclear weapons in response to enemy attacks because it understands the danger and irreversibility of such a conflict, and for now it is showing patience , but it may run out, warned the deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in "Telegram", quoted by Reuters and TASS.
"What do Western bosses and their war-mongering political establishment think of our country's response to possible missile strikes 'deep in territory'? Here's the thing: The Russians talk a lot about responding with weapons of mass destruction, but they do nothing. These are only "verbal interventions”. The Russians will not cross the border. They just threaten. A nuclear conflict is useless for them, they have a lot to lose, including the support of the Global South. And anyway, who needs an apocalypse? Well, other things in the same vein“, Medvedev described the situation, quoted by TASS.
He emphasizes that nobody really needs a nuclear conflict: it is "a very bad story with the worst outcome”.
"That is why so far no decision has been made to use nuclear weapons (non-strategic or even more strategic)“, he noted. "Russia is showing patience. Ultimately, it is clear that a nuclear response is an extremely difficult decision with irreversible consequences. However, the pompous Anglo-Saxon prematures do not want to admit one thing: all patience ends”, notes Medvedev.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev said, Reuters notes, that Russia could destroy the Ukrainian capital Kiev with non-nuclear weapons in response to Ukraine's use of long-range Western missiles. While Moscow has reason to use nuclear weapons since Ukraine entered the Kursk region, Russia may instead use some of its new weapons to turn Kiev into a "giant molten blob", according to Reuters.
Russia's verbal signals to the West about the danger of escalation have no effect, which means that it is necessary to "change the nature of signaling," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS. He added that Moscow knows the West has made a decision on whether to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with long-range missiles and has informed Kiev, but did not specify what the decision was.