War in Ukraine: the CIA warns of the nuclear risk, “the whole world must be worried” according to Zelensky – Le Parisien

We must be wary of Russian defeats. For the head of the CIA, William Burns, the military setbacks in Ukraine could encourage Vladimir Poutin, to resort to a nuclear weapon in this country. given the setbacks they have suffered thus far from a military perspective, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons or low-power nuclear weapons,” he said during a speech in Atlanta on Thursday. Asked this Friday to say, by the American channel CNN, if he shared this concern, President Volodymyr Zelensky replied: the whole world, all countries must be worried. He explained that this concern was about “nuclear weapons” or “chemical weapons”. “They can do it”, “for them, people’s lives are worth nothing”. The Kremlin mentioned putting its nuclear forces on alert “but we haven’t really seen any concrete signs such as deployments or measures soldiers who could aggravate our concerns, “added the head of the main American intelligence agency, who spoke to the students of Georgia Tech University. “It is obvious that we are very worried. I know that President Biden is deeply concerned about the risk of a Third World War and is doing everything to avoid reaching the point where a nuclear conflict becomes possible”, also added William Burns. An “explosive mix of grievances, ambition and insecurity” Russia has many tactical nuclear weapons, of a power lower than the Hiroshima bomb, in accordance with its doctrine of “escalation-de-escalation” which would consist in making first use of a nuclear weapon of weak power to regain the advantage in the event of a conventional conflict with the West. ‘has made it clear, which is planned,’ he underlined. stubborn”, who sank over the years into an “explosive mixture of grievances, ambition and insecurity”. “Every day, Putin demonstrates that a declining power can be as destabilizing as a rising power,” he added.