Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened the West with his country’s nuclear arsenal, claiming that it can “hit targets on their territory,” if they continue to help Ukraine. During his annual address to parliament and other high-level officials on Thursday, Putin, 71, repeatedly accused the West of attempting to destabilize the Eastern European country while offering a dire warning. “(Western nations) must realize that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory,” Russian President Vladimir Putin stated. “All of this threatens a battle involving the deployment of nuclear weapons and the annihilation of civilization. “Don’t they get it?!”
“Strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness,” Putin stated
Putin, who is expected to be returned to another six-year term in the upcoming March 15-17 presidential election, boasted about Russia’s massive arsenal of modern nuclear weapons, which is the world’s largest. The shocking warning came after Putin mentioned a proposal launched by French President Emmanuel Macron for European NATO countries to send ground troops to Ukraine, which was rejected by the US, the UK, and Germany, among others.
“Strategic nuclear forces are in a state of full readiness,” Putin stated, emphasizing that new-generation hypersonic nuclear missiles, which he first mentioned in 2018, had either been deployed or were in the last stages of development and testing and testing were being completed. The Russian leader’s message came a day after the president of the European Commission proposed Russian. Visibly angry, he suggested Western politicians recall the fate of those like Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler and France’s Napoleon Bonaparte who had unsuccessfully invaded Russia in the past. “But now the consequences will be far more tragic,” said Putin. “They think it (war) is a cartoon,” he said.
