Written in WORLD he 4/5/2025 · 10:28 hs
AP.- Russian President Vladimir Putin He affirmed that the need for Use nuclear weapons In Ukraine and expects that not to happen.
In comments broadcast on Sunday in a video of Russian state television on his fourth century in power, Putin declared that Russia has the strength and means to bring the conflict in Ukraine to his “logical conclusion.”
Answering a question about Ukrainian attacks in Russian territory, Putin said: “There has been no need to use those (nuclear weapons) … and I hope it is not necessary. “
“We have enough strength and means to carry what began in 2022 to a logical conclusion with the result that Russia requires,” he said.
Putin signed an updated version of the Russian nuclear doctrine In November 2024 that details the circumstances that allow it to use the atomic arsenal of Moscow, the largest in the world.
That version reduced the conditions to do so, which gives that option in response even to a conventional attack backed for a nuclear power.
In the video, Putin also denied that Russia launched a large -scale invasion in Ukraine – what he called a “special military operation” – in 2014, when illegally attached Crimeabecause it was “practically unrealistic.”
“The country was not prepared for such a frontal confrontation with the entire collective west,” he said. He also said that Russia “sincerely sought to solve Donbás’s problem by peaceful means.”
He added that Reconciliation with “inevitable” EA.
11 wounded in Kyiv attacks are regited
Russia and Ukraine have positions faced on two rival proposals high to fire.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski said on Friday, in comments published on Saturday, that Moscow’s announcement of a high 72 -hour fire next week in Ukraine to commemorate the Victory Day in World war II It is merely an attempt to create a “soft atmosphere” before Russia’s annual celebrations.
Zelenski, on the other hand, renewed the PAUSE REQUITIES More substantial of 30 days in hostilities, as the United States had initially proposed. He pointed out that the high on the proposed fire could begin at any time as a significant step towards the end of the war.
Meanwhile, 11 people were injured in a Russian drones attack during the night in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported Sunday. There were two children among the injured.
The attack aroused Valentyna Fesiuk, 83 and a neighbor of the Obolon district of kyiv.
“I was sleeping when the house shook. It was 12:30. An apartment on the 12th floor caught fire,” he told The Associated Press.
The car of another resident, Viacheslav Khotab, caught fire.
“I saw my burning car. I was covered with broken glass,” he said. “I couldn’t do anything.”
The 54 -year -old man was frustrated with peace negotiations stagnant: “They cannot agree on anything, and we are the ones who suffer the consequences.”
Russia fired a total of 165 Explosive drones and lures during the nightrevealed the Ukraine Air Force. Of those, 69 were intercepted and another 80 were lost, probably after electronic interference.
Russia also launched two ballistic missiles.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that its anti -aircraft defenses demolished 13 Ukrainian drones during the night.
