Partial mobilization in Russia .. Is Putin serious about using nuclear weapons?

The professor of political science and international relations at Moscow University explained that the partial mobilization announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin was not presented last February, which means that the situation has changed, and that the course of the battles on the ground did not take place as planned by Russia.

Putin had announced the partial mobilization of the army, and he said - in a speech - that his country was under threats of nuclear weapons, and that Russia had weapons of mass destruction against Western weapons, and demanded that the government provide funds to increase weapons production.

For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the partial mobilization will include 300,000 people who will not be summoned immediately, and that the reasons for the Russian leadership to take this step are due to the fact that it is facing the capabilities of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Ukraine.

Pechuk indicated that Russian citizens are skeptical of the official version of what he called the military operation in Ukraine and the victories they are talking about, and about the numbers of losses.

Covering up the Russian fiasco

As for the former American diplomat in Moscow, Dr. Donald Jensen, he believed that the partial mobilization that Putin talked about came to cover the retreat of the Russian forces in front of the Ukrainian forces, and the Russians suffered great losses in the war. He said that the partial mobilization aims to secure the Russian land corridor to the Crimea, This is what he also talked about, Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Moscow University. 

In his speech to an episode of "Beyond the News" program, Jensen considered that the military failures of the Russians in Ukraine have begun to turn into a political crisis, and some allies have begun to retreat from their positions in support of Moscow.

And on Putin's accusation of the West by pushing Kyiv to transfer military operations to his country and threatening Russia with nuclear strikes, the former American diplomat said that Putin had failed to achieve his goals of engaging the United States and NATO in his war with Ukraine, stressing that these two parties would not be used. Nuclear weapons, but they will not allow their use.

He predicted that the Russian war on Ukraine would continue for a few more months.

US President Joe Biden attacked his Russian counterpart's decision to announce partial mobilization, describing his nuclear threat as reckless.

Biden also accused - in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly - Russia of having shamelessly violated the basic principles of the United Nations Charter.

According to him.