The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is reassuring about Vladimir Putin's intention to regularly use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
More specifically, the CIA sees no evidence that Russia is preparing to regularly deploy nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine, its director, Bill Burns, said today, Saturday, according to the French News Agency.
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"There is no practical evidence"
"We see no practical evidence at this point of Russian planning for the development or even possible use of tactical nuclear weapons," Burns said.
"Given the sword-sharpening that ... we have heard from the Russian leadership, we cannot take these possibilities lightly," Burns told a conference hosted by the Financial Times."
[BR][BR]"So we remain very sharply focused as an intelligence agency at a time when the stakes are very high for Russia," he said.
Russia put its nuclear forces on high alert shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops to Ukraine on Feb. 24.
Putin has also made thinly veiled threats suggesting a willingness to deploy Russia's tactical nuclear weapons. The Kremlin chief has warned of "lightning" retaliation if the West intervenes directly in the conflict in Ukraine.
Observers say that in recent days, Russia's state television has sought to make the use of nuclear weapons more palatable to the public.
Source: in.gr
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