Bluff or real threat: Reznikov assessed Russia's nuclear potential
Ukrainian Minister of Defence, Reznikov, believes that Russia's nuclear blackmail is a bluff.
No one knows the current state of Russia's nuclear weapons, since the last test was in 1998. Therefore, the nuclear threat from the Russian Federation raises doubts.
This was stated by Ukrainian Minister of Defence Oleksii Reznikov on the air of a nationwide telethon.
According to Reznikov, Russia significantly overestimates its nuclear capabilities, as most of the Russian warheads and carriers that Ukraine gave to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union became unusable as early as 1997. "Then they could upgrade and extend the expiration date, but formally it expired even then. Plus, the manufacturer of many components were Ukrainian factories. We no longer help them," said the Head of the Ministry of Defence.
Reznikov added that the Kremlin conducted the last nuclear weapon test in 1998 at one of the test sites in Kazakhstan.
"What they have in their arsenal - whether it's effective and whether it will work at all," the Minister noted.
The Head of the Ministry of Defence reminded that on the day of US President Joe Biden's visit to Kyiv, Russia planned to test nuclear weapons carriers to intimidate the world. However, it failed, and the dictator Putin was forced to change his speech before the Federal Assembly.
"It failed and didn't work. Putin had to change his speech. There should have been a powerful signal to the West, but it wasn't there. I wouldn't exaggerate their capabilities," Reznikov concluded.
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