Is Russia’s talk of nuclear weapon use propaganda or hinting at Putin’s endgame?

There is a big chance that the Russian offensive will stumble to a halt, or even that the Russian army will lose heart and melt away.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in 2013 with Vladimir Soloviev, anchor of popular Russian current affairs show, "Sunday Evening". Soloviev is an opinionated motor-mouth and as close to Putin as anyone in the media can get, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 21, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—Last week Vladimir Soloviev, the anchor of Russia’s most popular current affairs show, Sunday Evening, was delivering his usual "all is going splendidly" take on the war in Ukraine when he suddenly went off-piste. The United Kingdom, he suggested, is planning to use nuclear...

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