President Vladimir Zelensky warned that the world must “prepare” for Russian leader Vladimir Putin to use nuclear weapons in the invasion of Ukraine – and called for air strike shelters and radiation medicine to be prepared for a potential disaster.
In an interview with CNN on Sunday, Zelensky was asked whether Putin would use chemical or nuclear tactical weapons to achieve his military goals in Ukraine.
“Not just me – the whole world, all countries have to worry because it may not be real information, but it may be true,” Zelensky told host Jake Tapper in an interview with his presidential office in Kyiv.
“Chemical weapons, they have to do it, they can do it, for them people’s lives, nothing. That’s why, “Zelenski said. “We have to think that we are not afraid, we are not afraid, but we are ready. But this is not a question of Ukraine, not only of Ukraine, but of the whole world, I think.
The Russian military has suffered a number of setbacks. Press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense through AP, File
In an interview with Ukrainian media on Saturday night, Zelensky warned of the real possibility of a nuclear attack.
“We should not wait for the moment when Russia decides to use nuclear weapons… We must prepare for this,” said the Ukrainian leader.
“Anti-radiation drugs and air strike shelters will be needed,” he said, noting that “Russia can use any weapon, I am convinced.”
Since then, Russian forces withdrawing from Kyiv have regrouped and are preparing for a full-scale attack. Press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense via AP, file
The Russian army has suffered a number of setbacks, including having to withdraw from the area around Kyiv and its suburbs due to fierce fighting between Ukrainian forces.
After the retreat, Russia lost its most powerful naval ship, the missile cruiser Moscow, when it sank in the Black Sea last week after being hit by a Ukrainian missile attack.
CIA Director William Burns said last week that a desperate Putin, seeing his forces suffer heavy losses from the Ukrainians, could resort to the use of nuclear weapons.
CNN’s Jake Tapper sits down for an exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at the Presidential Palace in Kyiv. CNN’s Vladimir Zelensky said the battle could “affect” the entire battle for Ukraine.
“Given the potential despair of President Putin and the Russian leadership, given the military failures they have faced so far, none of us can take lightly the threat of a potential resort to tactical or nuclear tactical weapons. low-yield weapons, “Burns said in a speech last Thursday at the Technical University of Georgia.
Since then, Russian forces withdrawing from Kyiv have regrouped and are preparing for a full-scale attack in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed militias have backed separatist groups since the 2014 invasion of Crimea.
Zelensky said the battles, which could be reminiscent of World War II open battles, could “affect” the entire battle for Ukraine, and vowed that his forces would not back down.
Vladimir Zelensky was asked whether Vladimir Putin would use chemical or nuclear tactical weapons © Mikhail Klimentiev / Kremlin Pool / Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire
“That’s why it’s very important for us not to let them stand their ground, because this battle … it could affect the course of the whole war,” Zelenski told CNN.
“Because I do not trust the Russian army and the Russian leadership. That is why we understand that the fact that we fought with them and they left, and they fled from Kyiv – from the north, from Chernigov and from this direction – does not mean that they can take Donbass, they will not go further. to Kyiv, “he said.
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