A Russian state TV host has warned that if the Ukraine war escalates to a "nuclear phase," the Kremlin will strike the U.S. with nuclear weapons as it is "in the crosshairs."
Russian political commentator and president of Russia's Institute of the Middle East Yevgeny Satanovsky made the warning in a clip that has now gone viral:
This comes on the heels of a very high ranking Russian elected official, Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Federation Council (Senate) who said "the likelihood of nuclear weapons being used, was growing by the day."
"In my opinion, concerns about climate change is nothing compared to the prospect of being at the epicenter of an explosion with a temperature of 5,000 Kelvin (scale), a shock wave of 350 meters per second and a pressure of 3,000 kilograms per square meter, with penetrating radiation, that is, ionizing radiation and an electromagnetic pulse," he said at an educational event in late April, according to Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti.
"Is there such a prospect today? (Unfortunately), yes. And it is growing every day for well-known reasons," he said.
