Matt Demick, a military expert and former director of Russia's office at the Pentagon, predicted that there will be no change on the battlefield in Ukraine after Russian threats to use nuclear weapons and after the referendums that pro-Russian separatists plan to organize on Ukrainian soil.

The Russians got accustomed every time - as the military expert adds to the episode (9/22/2022) of the "Beyond the News" program - to the threat of using nuclear weapons, and they did so when Washington sent various weapons to the Ukrainian side.

And former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev - who is currently the deputy head of the National Security Council - said that his country is ready to use all means - including strategic nuclear weapons - to defend the territories it will join.

While describing Russia's behavior - as a nuclear state - as dangerous, Demick said that the just solution to the Ukrainian issue is for President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his country's forces from Ukraine.

Russia's exhaustion in Ukraine

As for Grigory Trovimchuk - a Russian expert in the field of foreign policy, defense and security - he downplayed the importance of statements threatening the use of nuclear weapons, and likened them to the case of a boxer who threatens his opponent with a fatal blow without directing it to him.

Trovimchuk pointed out that Russia always declares that it is interested in Ukraine, so why should it strike the territories it is trying to seize and those where the referendum will be held?

The pro-Moscow authorities in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk and Luhansk announced simultaneous referendums to join Russia, starting next Friday, and Moscow described the referendums as irreversible.

The guest of the “Beyond the News” program explained that what is happening in Ukraine are attempts to drain Russia, stressing that the latter does not have the ability and readiness to throw a large number of people into the war, and it must use technology and human resources that carry the meaning of advanced war.

Regarding his perception of the way out of the Russian war on Ukraine, Trovimchuk called for the need for one of the parties to the war to be rational in its position, and also referred to the role of the United Nations and the Atomic Energy Agency in this.