Putin won't resort to nuclear weapons for one major reason—Exiled oligarch

Mikhail Khodorkovsky said Putin risks losing access to parallel imports needed to weapons.

The prospect of Russia turning to nuclear weapons to regain the initiative has hung over the conflict.

This week in responding to a question about whether he believed Belarus had been delivered Russian tactical nuclear weapons, U.S. PresidentHowever, Khodorkovsky, who headed the energy company Yukos before he was jailed for 10 years for what critics called politically motivated charges, believes that the Russian president had economic reasons not to use such weapons, aside from issues of self-preservation.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, on June 21, 2023. Exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has said Putin is unlikely to use nuclear weapons in his war on Ukraine.

, referring to products brought from another country without the permission of the intellectual property owner.Путин дошёл до предела! Ходорковский о том, кто останавливает НАТО от участия в войне в Украине

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