Medvedev cautions West not to underestimate Russia's willingness to use tactical nukes
MOSCOW, May 31. /TASS/. Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev says Western countries may be making a "fatal mistake" in assuming that Russia will never use tactical nuclear weapons (TNW).
"Just a few years ago, they [the West, NATO countries] were saying that Russia would not engage in an open military conflict with the Bandera regime in order not to quarrel with the West. They miscalculated. There is a war underway," Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to him, "they may also be miscalculating with the [possible] use of TNWs."
"However, this would be a fatal mistake. After all, as the Russian president justly pointed out, European countries have a very high population density.
And for those enemy countries whose lands are beyond the TNW coverage zone,
there is strategic potential," he added.
"No matter how much NATO’s retired old farts babble that Russia will never use non-strategic nuclear weapons against former Ukraine and what’s more, against individual NATO countries, reality is much harsher than their frivolous musings," Medvedev noted.