On Thursday, a Putin ally warned NATO that Russia’s defeat in Ukraine could spark a nuclear war, while the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said the world would end if the West tried to destroy Russia.
On the eve of a meeting of Ukraine’s allies to discuss sending more weapons to Kyiv, such apocalyptic rhetoric is intended to deter the US-led NATO military alliance from becoming even more involved in the war.
However, the explicit acknowledgement that Russia might lose on the battlefield marked a rare public moment of doubt from a prominent member of Putin’s inner circle.
‘Defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may precipitate a nuclear war,’ former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who serves as deputy chairman of Putin’s powerful security council, said in a Telegram post.
‘Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate is dependent,’ Medvedev, who was president from 2008 to 2012, said.
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