The warning about a possible Armageddon launched by Biden increases the fear that Russia will choose to use nuclear weapons
Joe Biden stated in the United States that “we have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the missile crisis in Cuba” to talk about Russia’s nuclear threat and that message became a world front page, but in Ukraine they have been terrorized for weeks put into the body. Unlike other wars, this time the US intelligence services have reliable sources and have been able to predict the enemy’s steps at different times during the invasion. At a time when the eastern and southern fronts are moving in favor of kyiv’s interests, the great question that arises in the minds of citizens is how a Vladimir Putin affected by the collapse of his troops can react.
Aleksei fought in Afghanistan for three years and has not left Odessa since the war broke out. He thinks that “the Red Army that I knew was as disastrous as the Russian Army that we see in action these days. I am not surprised that they lose ground because they fight with the mentality of the USSR and do not realize that we are in the 21st century. When the nuclear issue is brought up, he is silent for a few seconds before resuming with a single word: “Putin.”
This veteran of the Afghan conflict, where he lost eight teeth in a fight with a fellow Chechen, warns that “the threat is serious because Putin is wounded. It is important to him that the world treats Russia as a power and I think in his head he thinks that if the United States used atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, why can’t Russia use them?
Aleksei is not concerned that the Russians have added 200,000 reservists to their ranks because “in modern warfare the important thing is to have state-of-the-art weapons and we have that, not them.”
information warfare
In the newsrooms of the local media, the messages that arrive through the networks about this threat “range from panic to indifference. Some see it as something very real, others as propaganda and there are also those who are indifferent because they have already lost everything, “says Lina, director of the online information platform ‘Bgoru’. This is a project born in Kherson, 200 kilometers from Odessa, which the war and the Russian occupation have turned into a window to show what life is like under Russian control. The number of followers on his YouTube and Telegram channels has skyrocketed in the last seven months.
The editorial team of the web portal ‘Bgoru’. /
The main newsroom is located in the center of Odessa and three displaced journalists from Kherson work there. They also have two collaborators who work in complete anonymity in the area under occupation, “an absolutely secret job because the Russians are behind them. They tell us basic things, if there is electricity or food in the markets, if enemy reinforcements arrive… and these days they are the ones who allow us to corroborate that the Ukrainian Army is advancing and Russia is withdrawing on the other side of the Dnieper River, “says Ilona . The opinion of this journalist is that the nuclear threat “is very serious because the enemy is in a dead end.”
In ‘Bgoru’ they fight another of the key battles in any war, the battle of information, “with the aim of confronting Moscow’s propaganda and lies,” highlights Lina, head of research. She had to closely follow the recent referendum for the annexation of Kherson to the Russian Federation and assures that “it was a failure because half of the people left there as soon as they arrived and those who remain are afraid, they are not free to show their opinion because they live under military occupation’.
The kyiv forces have quickly recovered territory and, in the words of Volodymyr Zelensky, on the southern front of Kherson, 500 square kilometers have already been liberated. This is the biggest defeat suffered by the Russians on this front since the beginning of the invasion and represents a challenge to the annexation announced by Putin, since the new borders have not stopped shrinking since he made the decision public. At the moment, on the battlefield, the Russians do not react to the Ukrainian advance.
weapons request
The Ukrainian president also took the opportunity to intervene by videoconference at the European Council held in Prague. There the shadow of the nuclear threat hung in the air and Zelensky took the opportunity to ask for “increasing the supply of weapons and ammunition to defend against Russian pressure”, the same request that he has maintained since the first day of the invasion.
The Ukrainian leader, whose figure does not stop growing among his own, recognized that Europeans may prefer “to spend money on totally different objectives, peaceful objectives, social needs…”, but then, he asked them, “who and what will be able to protect such goals and needs?
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