Putin is supervising nuclear exercises, and Kiev is asking the West for honest security guarantees.. Where is the war heading?

In his speech to an episode of "Beyond the News" program, he stressed - that Washington must stop supplying Ukraine with weapons so that Moscow does not feel the danger, and on this basis, Russian President Vladimir Putin personally supervises some of the renewal processes. On the military and civilian sides.

The Russian official's statements came against the background of Moscow's statements that Putin supervised the exercises of the strategic nuclear deterrence forces, which included simulating an intense nuclear strike, in response to a missile bombing.

This coincides with Russia's renewed warning that Ukraine may use a "dirty bomb", and Kyiv's assertion that it is working with its allies to prevent any Russian nuclear attack.

For its part, Washington stressed that Russia's use of a nuclear weapon would be a grave mistake.

Russian failure

On the Ukrainian side, Andrey Yermak, director of the Ukrainian president's office, said that he discussed with Ukraine's Western allies ways to provide credible security guarantees to Ukraine.

The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Merezhko said that these nuclear maneuvers are part of Russian blackmail, as Russia threatens to use nuclear weapons, noting that the "dirty bomb" is on the Russian side.

He stressed that Russia understands that it is losing the war, and that the Russian president feels a state of panic, so he resorts to using the term "dirty bomb" and threatening the entire world with resorting to nuclear weapons, and this is only evidence of fear and panic.

As for the military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, he saw that the Russian exercises were programmed in advance, indicating that the goal of them is often symbolic.

It is noteworthy that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated the accusation of Ukraine of preparing a "terrorist act" in which the "dirty bomb" would be used.

Peskov added that Moscow would continue to alert the world in order to prevent what he called "irresponsible activity."

The alert apparently includes what was announced in Moscow regarding two phone calls made by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu with his Chinese and Indian counterparts, where the Russian Defense Ministry said that Shoigu had expressed to them Moscow's concern about what he called possible provocations by Ukraine using a "dirty bomb."