The nuclear option terrifies the world. A NATO intelligence report mentioned in the Times raises the alarm. According to the respected British newspaper, Russian President Vladimir Putin “is ready to demonstrate his willingness to use weapons of mass destruction with a nuclear test on Ukraine’s borders, NATO is believed to have warned its members”. ‘orders a nuclear military train for Ukraine'”.
The reference is to the sighting of a special convoy that Moscow had set in motion and that would be run by the Russian secret nuclear division. “The Kremlin signaled its readiness for significant escalation as Russia loses ground on the battlefield. Fears over Putin’s earlier suggestions that he might resort to such tactics rose yesterday” after news of the nuclear train broke. by a pro-Russian Telegram account. The British newspaper quotes an operational analyst in Poland, Konrad Muzyka, as saying that the convoy, spotted in central Russia, was linked to the twelfth main directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense and that it was “responsible for nuclear munitions, for their storage, maintenance, transport and issuance of units”.
The video showing the convoy that appeared on Telegram on the pro-Russian Rybar channel was reportedly geolocated near Moscow, thousands of kilometers from the border. Therefore, it would not demonstrate a supply of nuclear material to the border. But the report cited by the Times is not just about the “nuclear train.” In fact, NATO would have altered all the units present in the region, but also the Western services, because it is also feared that the Belgorod submarine could operate in the waters of the Ukrainian coasts in the Black Sea. Belgorod possesses the Poseidon missile system which can be armed with nuclear warheads and is capable of annihilating a metropolis with a single blow.
It should also be noted that Kyiv City Council says it is supplying evacuation centers with potassium iodide-based pills in preparation for a possible nuclear attack on the capital. Iodine pills can help block the thyroid’s absorption of harmful radiation when taken just before or just after exposure to nuclear radiation. The pills will be distributed to residents in areas contaminated by any nuclear radiation if they need to be evacuated, the city council said in a statement.
Source: IL Tempo
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