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Russian Commander: The next escalation will be nuclear!

Russia is unable to "defeat the NATO bloc" without using #nuclear #weapons, a Russian commander has admitted.

Alexander Khodakovsky, commander of Russian forces in Donetsk, stressed that Russia is fighting against the entire Western world, so the next escalation of the war in #Ukraine " can only be one: nuclear".

"We know our capabilities. We realize the limits of our resources.

If NATO countries exceed certain limits, eg dispatch of Leopard tanks. They are very close to crossing the red line.

Everyone realizes that the next escalation will be nuclear.

We do not have the capabilities to defeat the NATO bloc by conventional means. But we have the nuclear weapons for that.

That's why there is only one option ," said Mr. Khodakovsky.

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The Kremlin has not commented on these statements of the Russian commander, but a development shows that Moscow is intensively preparing for such a moment.