The head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said that Moscow would be able to eliminate NATO countries in just 30 minutes in a nuclear war.
However, Dmitry Rogozin also warned that nuclear weapons should not be used.
“In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour,” Rogozin said in a post on his Telegram channel on Sunday.
“But we must not allow it, because the consequences of the exchange of nuclear strikes will affect the state of our Earth,” he said. “We will therefore have to defeat this economically and militarily more powerful enemy with conventional military means.”
The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko during their visit to the Vostochny spaceport, 180 km north of Blagoveshchensk in the Russian Amur region on April 12, 2022. Mikhail Klimentiev / AFP via Getty Images
Rogozin also added to speculation that Russian President Vladimir Putin could use his speech during Monday’s Victory Day celebrations to announce plans to recruit Russian civilians into the army or to officially declare war on Ukraine.
“Such a victory is possible with the full solidarity of the whole country with the army, with the mobilization of the state economy, with the transfer of the military-industrial complex and related industrial sectors of Russia on a military basis,” he wrote. “And this must be done immediately and quickly.”
In another post, Rogozin said NATO was “fighting” against Russia, using Ukrainian forces to fight a proxy conflict.
“NATO is waging war against us. They have not declared it, but that does not change anything. It is now obvious to everyone,” he wrote.
“Ukraine’s national battalions and Ukraine’s armed forces are consumables, cannon fodder for NATO, they are just operators trained by NATO instructors who push the levers and buttons of NATO weapons.”
In the same post, Rogozin contradicted Putin’s justification for sending Russian forces to Ukraine in late February.
He called the conflict a war aimed at removing Ukraine from the map, although Putin called it a “special military operation” to remove “Nazis” from the Ukrainian leadership.
“We are not fighting the Nazis in Ukraine. We are freeing Ukraine from NATO occupation and repelling the worst enemy from our western borders,” Rogozin wrote.
“The very existence of Ukraine, separate from Russia, will inevitably turn it into anti-Russia and a springboard for the West’s aggression against our people.
“That is why what we call the Special Military Operation goes far beyond its original meaning and geography. This is a war for the truth and Russia’s right to exist as a united and independent state. “
NATO contacted for comment.
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