A former senior British Army officer has warned that Vladimir Putin is thinking of using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine to end the war.
More than 1 million Russian soldiers have either been killed in action or have been wounded and the Russian Army is struggling with manpower and are failing to make gains in Ukraine.
the US Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) said in a recent report that Russian troops have failed to capture vast amounts of Ukraine and have only seized 5,000 kilometres since January 2004 at the cost of thousands of lives and the loss of billions in equipment.
In the Kharkiv region Russian troops have only been able to move some 50 metres a day which is far slower than the Somme offensive in World War One where British soldiers moved around 80 metres a day.
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Former Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon warned that as a result of this, Putin could now use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
The expert on weapons of mass destruction, Colonel Bretton-Gordon wrote in the Telegraph, “The fact that Putin and his gangsters have threatened nuclear attack continuously since the wider war in Ukraine began suggests they are thinking about it in detail.
As three days have become three years plus, they may think they can finish off Ukraine quickly with tactical nukes and we would not react.
Last week the Franco-UK nuclear weapons alliance was agreed, this may be a deterrent for Putin to reconsider as Paris and London could respond in retaliation to any nuclear attack on Ukraine.
He continued, “I for one salute President Macron and Sir Keir for this at least: realising that Putin only respects strength and ruthlessly exploits weakness.
“The US President may also at last have found his backbone. If he does not lose it, we might just avoid a wider war in Europe and see a just peace for Ukraine.”
Last November Putin formally lowered the threshold for Russia to use a nuclear weapon for a conventional strike.
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