Pak Sahafat – John Bolton, the former national security adviser of the United States, claimed that the risk of a nuclear conflict with Russia has become much higher than in the past.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency from Hill magazine, speaking to a New York Channel 7 radio program on Tuesday, Bolton claimed that the potential danger of using nuclear weapons is not to change the battlefield but to strengthen the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin at home.
In response to the program’s question about whether Putin might approve the use of nuclear weapons, he claimed: Now, after Ukraine’s success in the north, we are not at this point, but compared to before, we are much closer to it.
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Bolton, who served as former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser in 2018 and 2019, said he always predicted that Putin would not use nuclear weapons unless Ukrainian forces were successful enough to cross the Russian border.
Military conflicts between Russia and Ukraine have recently escalated, and the Ukrainian army has claimed that it has launched massive counterattacks against Moscow’s forces. It is said that Ukraine has pushed back the Russian army in the northern part of the country.
Claiming that Putin’s current political position has been compromised, the former American national security adviser added: The Russian president is now in more trouble than when the war started, and we should think about how to take advantage of this issue.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently announced the liberation of parts of Kharkiv, and a Russian appointed official in the region confirmed that Ukrainian forces had achieved victories by breaking the defense lines of Russian forces.