According to this specialist, the bombardments carried out by Russia on Ukraine on Monday, “allow to exclude the possibility that they use the tactical nuclear weapon”.
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“This is one of the paradoxically reassuring elements”, estimates Monday, October 10 on France Culture Isabelle Facon, deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research. “Through these strikes, the Russians show that they still have means in the conventional field”. These Russian bombardments which hit kyiv and other cities in Ukraine on Monday show that “Recourse to nuclear weapons is not an immediate option, nor is it such an easy decision to make”, adds Isabelle Facon.
The specialist in Russian defense and security issues believes that “it is a pile of failures that led to this decision on the Russian side”that is to say the counter-offensives on the Ukrainian side in Kharkiv, Kherson and the capture of Lyman, despite the annexation referendums by Russia. “A very embarrassing sequence”, according to Isabelle Facon, who “raised quite strong pressure in circles of power to demand much stronger action in Ukraine”. The former Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, assures that these strikes are only a “first episode”.
“The question of their stocks arises”, replies Isabelle Facon, since “that we had noticed in recent months that there were a lot fewer shots with this kind of more precise and longer-range missiles. Sanctions can weigh on the production of this type of missile”.