Putin is afraid of the Armed Forces counter -offensive, so he spoke of increased nuclear readiness - isw
According to analysts at the Institute, Russian military bloggers warn that Ukrainian troops will probably try to start a great counter -offensive soon. "Putin's actions indicate that he expects and afraid of the potential success of the Ukrainian counter -offensive.
He and the Kremlin's high -ranking officials used to use n narratives to strengthen Russia's nuclear readiness, blurry statements about the negative development of events on the battlefield, claiming that Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons protection in Ukraine to restrain the further support of the event or military assistance to Ukraine, ”the message reads.
It is also noted that the Kremlin can use further rhetoric on nuclear escalation to force the Western states to negotiate with Russia and stop further military assistance to Ukraine. "Isw believes that Putin's statement dated March 25 is part of these efforts, and continues to estimate that Russia is unlikely to apply nuclear weapons in Ukraine or somewhere," ISW reported.
On March 25, the Institute of War Study reported that the Armed Forces had destroyed one of the brigades of the Russian Federation of the Armed Forces 8 times, but it is constantly being restored. The report of the Institute of March 24 states that the community in the Russian Federation began to respond to the slowdown of the offensive operations of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.