Russian President Vladimir Putin decided not to resort to the war against Ukraine to use nuclear weapons due to tough warnings from other states, the deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was convinced. She stated this at a meeting with reporters in Kyiv, reports Ukrainian Truth.
According to the deputy secretary, the international reaction to the nuclear threats sounding from Moscow convinced Putin that the reaction to the use of nuclear weapons would be “unprecedented and heavy for Russia,” and this made Moscow change the war plans.
“You saw that not only the United States, but also other G7 members went to the Kremlin with signals that it was absolutely unacceptable and irresponsible to scatter this (hints of the use of nuclear weapons),” said Nuland.
“Russia has already made itself an outcast, but we explained that the use of nuclear weapons will have the consequences of an incomparable level,” she stressed.
According to Nuland, abandoning nuclear escalation, Russia “passed to a fundamentally different weapon, starting an attack on the energy infrastructure” of Ukraine. Nuland also called such tactics absolutely unacceptable, but from her words it follows that Russian attacks on energy facilities became a kind of replacement for the use of nuclear weapons. “Putin decided to do something else. And you have to live with this” other “now,” she said to Ukrainian journalists.