Putin made chilling NUCLEAR threat as he emptied arsenal for biggest blitz ever… he can ‘smell weakness’, experts warn
VLADIMIR Putin began emptying his arsenal overnight for Russia’s biggest-ever attack on Ukraine as he “smells weakness”, experts warned.
The tyrant could now look for an attack nuclear energy plant Zaporizzhia – which is four times larger than Chernobyl.
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Putin, 71, unleashed hell on civilians using a deadly weapon arsenal of 88 missiles and 66 drones – many of which are designed to storm warships and infrastructure.
The weapons included seven £4.5 million “Kinzhal” missilescapable of reaching a speed of twelve times the speed of sound, and five Kh-22 “Storm” long-range missiles intended for use against aircraft carriers.
The brutal leader emptied his stock of civilian infrastructure overnight and sent the Dnipro current plants and go up in flames.
Ukraine‘S energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said the blitz was “the biggest attack on Ukraine’s energy sector in recent times.”
Domestic and industrial electricity supplies were wiped out and citizens faced an internet outage.
Retired British Army General Sir Richard Barrons told The Sun that the bombardment was resonant Russia‘s supply of missiles and drones.
He said: “[The attacks] are intended to weaken Ukraine’s resolve to keep fighting and, above all, to suggest to the West that support for Ukraine is futile and that ‘we’ must encourage Ukraine to settle, that is, to accept defeat.
“Putin, with a new six-year term, is confident in his cause and he thinks (Donald) Trump will win and the EU will split.
“So he smells weakness and opportunities that these attacks should exploit. In short, the more catastrophic the (self-inflicted) outcome in Ukraine, the greater the risk of escalation into a major confrontation, even conflict, with NATO.”
He warned that Russia will launch a renewed offensive in the region summer and try to sail on to the Dnipro River and Kiev.
The attack, perhaps the despot’s most daring yet, came as the Kremlin claimed that the West’s intervention on Ukraine’s side was responsible for the disastrous ongoing war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday: “We are in a state of war.
“Yes, it started as a special military operation, but as soon as this group was formed, when the collective West on the side of Ukraine took part in this, it became a war for us.”
Chemical weapons expert Colonel Hamish Stephen de Bretton-Gordon said Peskov’s comments were “hugely worrying” and indicated that “the gloves are off” – that “no holes have been blocked”.
He told The Sun: “The massive attack is an indication that the Russians are taking advantage of the confusion in the West at the moment, the lack of ammunition and air defense missiles in Ukraine – and that is why many got through this time.”
The apparent change in Kremlin rhetoric “most likely indicates that Russia is starting to mobilize,” security expert Aliona Hlivco said.
Ms. Hlivco, director of the Henry Jackson Society, said Putin is escalating the war and wants to destroy Ukraine, while the West is reluctant to supply more weapons and artillery ammunition.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis despaired on Friday: “We have choked the weapons supply, we have failed to provide sufficient air defense, and now we are asking Ukrainians to sit on their hands while cruise missiles land on their families.”
“Such mistakes determine the course of the entire century. And there is no justification for any of this.”
As a sequel to last weekend’s mock electionsWhile Putin ‘won’ a fifth term in the Kremlin with 87 percent of the votes, the despot has no reason not to go ‘all in’.
“There are no more chains for Putin now,” De Bretton-Gordon said told The Sun after the election.
Ms Hlivco said on Friday: “Putin has nothing left to lose. He is a pariah, a war criminal on the world stage.
‘And Russia has reached its critical point no return. It leads whoever they can get against the rest of the world without fear of possible consequences.
“Russia doesn’t really care about its citizens. They are leading the world into the abyss.”
Now that Russia ‘thinks it is at war’, Putin could consider the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in south-eastern Ukraine – Europe’s largest nuclear power plant – as a ‘legitimate nuclear power plant’. goal“, said Colonel De Bretton-Gordon.
The nighttime attack knocked out power to the plant.
Colonel De Bretton-Gordon warned that Zaporizhia – four times larger than Chernobyl – could be used as an improvised nuclear weapon.
He said: “It is an extremely dangerous state without power.”
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