They claim that Putin was about to start a nuclear war in Ukraine

One of the biggest fears is that Russia will use nuclear weapons as part of the invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, which left thousands dead on both sides and the civilian population.

And despite the Russian government’s insistence over and over again that it will not resort to this type of weapon President Vladimir Putin himself denied at the end of October that he intended to use nuclear weapons In Ukraine, after pointing out that “we do not see any need for this. This is illogical, neither political nor military,” the situation seems to be different.

This emerges from a series of emails leaked by an informant for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the entity that replaced the Soviet-era KGB, and published by Vladimir Osichkin, a Russian rights activist in exile in France who runs an anti-corruption website. gulagu.net.

According to those emails, after the start of the occupation of Ukraine and the failure to seize its capital, Kyiv, Putin discussed with some heads of the FSB the possibility of resorting to nuclear weapons.

The emails are dated March 17, March 21, and April 12 this year, revealing that The leaders consulted had pointed out to the Russian president the inconvenience of a nuclear attack Because of its effects on the Russian economy and the looming risks to the existence of the Russian Federation.

According to what has been revealed, some of these leaders opposed the military incursion into Ukraine, but in this case, Putin ignored the recommendations and launched the offensive, which lasted just over nine months.

What do the emails say?

According to one of the emails posted by Osechkin’s website on March 17, an agent known by the alias “Wind of Change” said that although the conflict with Ukraine was “far from logic and common sense,” In the FSB they hoped not to “do any nonsense”, referring to the use of nuclear weapons.

Likewise, I express my doubts that President Putin will proceed this way, since Russia “will also be on the receiving end.”

Massive nuclear attack: Even assuming it is technically possible, that all links in the chain follow all commands, which I no longer believe is the case, it still does not make sense. Such an attack would hit everyoneAccording to a translation provided by another dissident Russian journalist, Igor Suchko, who is the executive director of a Washington-based investigative group.

In another letter, you can read that the FSB source warned about this Using tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine means “defeating Russia” against traditional enemy states as well as neutral states.

“The winds of change,” the agent wrote, after adding that the Russian president could threaten to use him to “terrorize the West.”

In an email dated April 12, this was mentioned An eventual nuclear attack on Ukraine “will not achieve anything” and, on the contrary, can “cause consequences that are useless to think about.”

He went further, revealing that there was a possibility that the chain of command from the Kremlin could hinder ordering such an attack, though questioning whether this was “technically possible” and there would be no certainty about it.

A situation of this kind requires the consent of all involved, which seems complicated, In addition to the technical capabilities to make this possible, “everything is much more complicated here.”

Another consideration made in opposing a nuclear attack was that it must be ensured that its launch would not produce a “corresponding response at the point of origin”, i.e. from the West.

In any case, the missiles will still need to hit the targets, because “Non-uniform interceptions” of such missiles over our territory could have nasty side effects That would cancel everything.”

Finally, in the same email The agent questioned the Kremlin’s lack of strategy in the face of the invasion of Ukraine, and directly accused President Putin of Russia’s military setbacks.

Putin has created the pinnacle of the Russian problem now, because he puts his political demands above any benefit: military, social, and economic. “We don’t have a strategy,” he said.

He added that “Just two weeks ago, there was hope that the current crisis would force the country’s top leaders to take a responsible step back, Assess the situation and look for real solutions to the situation.

“But instead, we see the behavior of a player who has been let down by his emotion as he tries to recover his lost bets at any cost. There is no one to stop him and his environment allows him to do so. You must see how even some of us drag ourselves at our feet.”

The author of Revelation Vladimir Osechkin currently lives in exile in France and It was denounced that agents were sent by Putin’s government to assassinate him To disclose confidential information he does on his website and on other platforms such as the prestigious magazine Newsweek.

Last September, unknown assailants shot him and his family shortly after another dissident, Christo Grozev, a journalist with the investigative platform, was shot. Bellingcat He warns him that an intelligence source has informed him that he is wanted for his murder for publishing a series of reports about torture in Russian prisons.

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