Russia uses nuclear blackmail so that Ukraine does not beat Western weapons on the rear in the Russian Federation - isw

According to American analysts, Russia is unlikely to apply tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine or anywhere. Russia activates the threats of use of tactical nuclear weapons in order to force Western leaders to limit Ukraine's military support, as well as to prohibit the use of Western weapons for blows to military facilities in the Russian Federation. This is stated in the report of the American Institute of War Study (ISW) of May 6, 2024.

"Russian officials are likely to use an information operation on nuclear weapons to refuse Ukraine's western partners from providing additional military support and frightening Western politicians so that they do not allow Ukrainian troops to use the System provided by the West to attack lawful military facilities in Russia" , - the report says.

Analysts have specified that in this way the Russians activate the campaign of reflexive control, which is a key element of the Russian tools of hybrid warfare is a tactic that relies on the formation of an enemy through purposeful rhetoric and information operations in such a way that the opponent voluntarily commit actions. According to analysts, the current restoration of nuclear rhetoric coincides with the inevitable arrival of Western weapons in Ukraine.

"Russian troops are involved in ordinary nuclear exercises under this broader nuclear rhetoric information operation, but ISW continues to estimate that Russia is unlikely to apply tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine or anywhere," the report reads. We will remind, in the report of May 5, analysts of the Institute of War Study reported that the armed forces of the Russian Federation are preparing for attacks in the Belgorod-Kharkiv direction.