Putin ‘in all probability bluffing’ with ‘suicidal’ nuclear threats, says knowledgeable

Vladimir Putin might be bluffing with regards to unleashing nuclear devastation on the world – as a result of he is aware of it might be suicidal.

At least, that is the view of an internationally recognised knowledgeable on safety and intelligence issues. It comes after Ukraine‘s president Volodomyr Zelensky claimed Russia has planted explosives round Europe’s largest nuclear energy station.

Zelensky mentioned “it is the responsibility of everyone in the world to stop” Russia from blowing up Zaporizhzhia plant. And he mentioned the world “is ready to respond” to stop Putin’s regime from intentionally triggering a Chernobyl-style nuclear incident.

Russian, nevertheless, has claimed that it’s Zelensky who’s planning an assault on the ability station. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned: “There is a great threat of sabotage by the Kyiv regime, which can be catastrophic in its consequences.”

Neither side has provided any proof for the allegations. Zelensky claimed Ukrainian intelligence had seen objects, that could be explosives, on the roof of the power plant.

However, The Associated Press reviewed high-resolution satellite imagery of the plant taken on Monday and Wednesday and saw no visible changes to the rooftops of the six concrete containment domes covering the reactors at the plant, or nearby buildings. 

Nonetheless, Putin has previously suggested that, if he was provoked by the West, he would not hesitate to use Russia‘s nuclear arsenal. And, final month, it was claimed that Putin ‘definitely considering’ use of tactical nuclear weapons as an possibility in Ukraine

However, educational and creator Professor Anthony Glees says he believes that Putin is sort of definitely bluffing.

Glees told the Daily Star: “Putin, true to the KGB tradecraft of his early days, is desperately doing his finest to threaten and terrorise Ukraine and its allies and kill as many harmless Ukrainians as he can. But he is not going to begin a nuclear battle as a result of he is aware of that to take action could be suicidal, for Russia and himself.

“Yes, [Putin] needs the world to suppose he’s completely joyful to transform the nuclear vitality plant right into a ‘theatre’ nuclear weapon in an effort to deter Ukraine from making additional advances into the south japanese sector of Russian managed territory.

“Yes he needs Ukraine and Europe to worry one other Chernobyl. And sure he’s a chilly, calculating assassin who doesn’t balk at killing civilians with rockets and drones.

“But he wants to win, as far as he can, he does not want to be destroyed by the war of aggression that he has started, one which he is increasingly looking like losing. He wants to live, not to die.”