There’s now a tangible concern amongst residents in Ukraine that Russia might goal the nation with a nuclear strike, based on Kyiv resident and Ukraine War Diaries contributor Oksana Koshel.
This week, the Kremlin annexed 4 areas in Ukraine, following referendums denounced by the West as a sham.
The transfer has seen President Vladimir Putin declare sovereignty over the areas and follows a latest declaration to guard Russian territories by all means at his disposal.
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But in opposition to the broader backdrop of great Russian army setbacks, there’s now a tangible concern in Ukraine that the struggle is about to enter a lethal new part with the Kremlin’s current battlefield technique persevering with to flounder.
“Over these past couple of days, talks of a nuclear danger have gone up to unprecedented levels,” explains Oksana within the newest version of the Sky News Ukraine War Diaries podcast.
“So, completely different info sources are publishing directions on what to do and how you can behave – it appears unthinkable that we may be dealing with like a nuclear apocalypse within the coming days, months and even years to come back.
“It’s just unfathomable.”
On Wednesday, a stage with large video screens was arrange in Moscow’s Red Square, with billboards proclaiming “Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson – Russia!”
Analysts have mentioned any annexation of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson would take the struggle right into a harmful new part, and follows scenes of panic within the nation as hundreds try and flee the nation in a bid to keep away from a mobilisation decree set to draft 300,000 new conscripts for struggle.
“We met our neighbour who actually is a very close friend of ours,” continued Oksana. “She came back to her apartment to pick up some warm winter clothes because they are now located in the west of Ukraine, in the mountains.
“And we requested in the event that they thought they’d be coming again to Kyiv anytime quickly? Cos I imply the youngsters go to high school… and she or he mentioned ‘no I don’t really feel protected’.
“And Seva [my husband] and me were like ‘what is your kind of main concern?’ And it turned out that it was a nuclear strike.”
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