Patricia Lewis from the Chatham House think tank told Newsweek that the chance of Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons was 'unknown rather than unlikely.'
"In any case, even for battlefield use, the goal would be to terrify Ukraine and particularly its partners into backing down or making concessions, not tactical advantage."estimates that Russia has as many as 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, which have lower yields and are used at shorter ranges than the warheads carried on intercontinental ballistic missiles. They have never been used in combat and can be deployed a number of ways, including by missile or artillery shell.
A strike over the Black Sea has been mooted by some analysts but Patricia Lewis, research director for international security at London's Chatham House think tank, said this would put Russia's own fleet at risk. Lewis believed another option would be to deploy a nuclear weapon in a rural area further west in Ukraine on the pretext of targeting a nuclear or biological weapon facility that Moscow would say it had to act quickly to thwart.'s approach of not responding in kind would allow that to be a different kind of pause," she said,"what I think they are trying to do is make us all very frightened.
"Unless the message is there that we are prepared to follow up with an attack on cities, on civilians" he said,"this demonstration would be totally ineffective."
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