The threat to the use of tactical nuclear weapons or low-power nuclear weapons in Ukraine can not be treated frivolidly, but the CIA does not have practical evidence that Moscow really plans to go for such extreme measures, said the director of the CIA William Burns.
Reuters writes that the CIA Director announced the “possible recklessness” and the failures of Vladimir Putin, whose forces suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat from several areas in the north of Ukraine after an unsuccessful attempt to capture Kyiv. For these reasons, “none of us can be frivolously referring to the threat associated with the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons of low power,” said Burns.
But despite the “rhetorical statements” of the Kremlin on bringing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal to a state of high combat readiness, “we have not seen a lot of practical evidence of deployment or placement of troops that could strengthen this concern,” the head of the CIA added.
saying that it was Moving by the President of the Russian Federation when deciding on the start of the war against Ukraine, the director of the CIA noted that Putin believed that Washington’s European allies were too busy with their own domestic politics, and also had hopes for “defended from sanctions” . “Putin turned out to be wrong for each of these items,” said Burns.