See how Putin defended tactical nuclear weapons move
See how Putin defended tactical nuclear weapons move
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would place tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports on the response from Ukraine. #CNN #News
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0.066 -> Against the
0.5 -> backdrop of the Kremlin's
1.935 -> military struggles in Ukraine.
3.536 -> Unpleasant.
4.07 -> Vladimir Putin
4.904 -> says Russia will place
6.239 -> tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
8.742 -> Ukraine's northern neighbor
10.243 -> or risk border
10.977 -> as both Ukraine and non-NATO
12.479 -> ally, Poland.
13.78 -> It hasn't had a nuclear arsenal
15.081 -> since the end of the Cold War,
16.516 -> but that could change in
18.051 -> just a few months.
19.152 -> Here's how Putin defended
20.253 -> the move
in an interview with Russian media.
24.19 -> What you're seeing in this study,
25.892 -> the United States has done it
27.36 -> for decades.
28.661 -> They have placed
29.329 -> their tactical nuclear weapons
30.93 -> in their ally countries,
32.399 -> NATO countries,
33.833 -> in six countries, to be exact.
36.202 -> Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium,
39.272 -> Italy, Turkey and Greece.
42.542 -> And we had an agreement
43.643 -> with Lukashenko as allies do the same.
46.112 -> Then you've been monitoring
47.313 -> reaction there in Ukraine
48.982 -> What have you been seeing
52.385 -> Well, what we see is that
53.253 -> the Ukrainians
53.953 -> clearly feel
55.155 -> that the temperature is being raised
57.524 -> by President Putin's statement
59.426 -> regarding the deployment
61.127 -> of tactical nuclear weapons
63.263 -> sometime down the line in Belarus.
66.299 -> On the other hand,
67.1 -> they are not pressing the panic button.
69.903 -> We did see a statement
71.137 -> from Aleksey
72.238 -> Daniel of who's
73.039 -> a senior adviser to President
74.674 -> Vladimir Zelensky.
76.142 -> He said,
76.609 -> and I'm reading here
77.644 -> Putin's statement
78.611 -> about placing nuclear weapons in Belarus
81.081 -> a step towards internal destabilization
84.017 -> of the country.
84.918 -> Maximizes
85.885 -> the level of negative
86.986 -> perception and public rejection
89.222 -> of Russia.
90.023 -> And Putin in Belarus, Russian society.
92.792 -> The Kremlin,
93.46 -> he concluded, took Belarus
95.595 -> as a nuclear hostage.
97.797 -> I think if you read between the lines
100.7 -> here,
what do the Ukrainians are saying
103.436 -> that Lukashenko, whose hold on power
106.539 -> just a few years ago was looking
108.541 -> rather shaky
109.709 -> may be weakening his domestic position
112.912 -> by allowing Russia at some point
115.949 -> to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus
119.319 -> and as.
120.587 -> As Matthew just mentioned,
123.49 -> the fact that this means
124.557 -> more Russian troops
125.892 -> in Belarus, a country
127.894 -> which did allow the Russians
129.762 -> to use their territory
131.464 -> to invade Ukraine just over a year ago.
135.635 -> All right.
136.202 -> And then, Ben, from the battlefront now.
138.738 -> What's the latest
139.472 -> particularly in the ongoing battle
141.007 -> for Bakhmut
144.21 -> Well, the situation there
145.512 -> continues to be precarious.
147.747 -> CNN was on the phone
149.282 -> with a senior official spokesman
151.451 -> for Ukrainian forces in eastern Ukraine.
154.721 -> He said that the Russians in the area
157.123 -> around Bakhmut
158.024 -> do not seem to be suffering
159.759 -> from a shortage
161.06 -> of artillery shells,
162.462 -> that the shelling of that city
164.664 -> continues to be intense.
166.032 -> He says that
166.799 -> there are around
167.5 -> 4000 civilians incredibly
170.537 -> still inside what's left of that city.
175.008 -> Now, every day
176.442 -> we're seeing that the Russians
177.644 -> have advanced
178.444 -> in some areas,
179.279 -> the Ukrainians
180.48 -> claiming that they're pushing back
182.482 -> and others.
183.483 -> What's most important
184.551 -> is that
there is one
185.752 -> last road allowing for Ukrainian forces
189.589 -> to go in and out of the city
192.225 -> and to bring supplies and whatnot.
194.494 -> That road continues
195.962 -> to be quite dangerous.
197.33 -> And if if at some point
199.933 -> the Russians do manage to either
201.834 -> cut that road
203.002 -> or make it impassable because of fire,
205.705 -> that could spell
206.573 -> the end
207.44 -> of the Ukrainian military presence in
209.509 -> Barmore can.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfml76IswIM