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As the world watches the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant suffer “weeks of shelling,” the potential for “another nuclear disaster on the scale of …

And true to form, the Russian leader is ready to escalate, perhaps up to the brink of nuclear war, rather than admit defeat.

The facility, Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, was forcibly taken by Russian troops in the early days of the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine.

… and even abstractly threaten nuclear war,” writes Alexander Baunov, a Russian analyst with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile blasted a crater close to a nuclear power … Throughout the war, Russia has targeted Ukraine’s electricity …

The country will launch a preemptive nuclear attack if it detects signs another country is preparing to attack it—a break from previous policy.

“It will not provoke a nuclear war, because we will use operative – not strategic – nuclear weapons on Kalibrs, Iskanders, and bombs on planes.”.

During the Cold War, even the threat of using nuclear weapons was seen as a violation of understandings between the two superpowers.

In a move that could dramatically escalate the war, Russia pushed ahead with … victory or the eve of nuclear war,” Simonyan wrote on Twitter.

Biden to urge “respect for the core principles of the international order” as Russia’s war on Ukraine drives a “crisis in confidence” in the U.N. …