According to the expert, the Russian authorities are in a desperate situation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin returned to nuclear threats after Ukraine almost completely repelled Russia’s latest massive missile strike and struck a Russian airfield with strategic bombers without receiving long-range missiles from the United States.

The Russian authorities found themselves in a desperate situation, said political scientist and publicist Andriy Piontkovskyi on the “FreeDom” broadcast.

The interlocutor noted that the Russian Federation threatened to plunge Ukraine into the stone age without nuclear weapons and began shelling the energy infrastructure.

“But it turned out – the last shelling was almost completely parried, that this card was beaten. And here, in parallel, it turned out that the entire territory of the Russian Federation, it lies bare, defenseless, without an anti-aircraft defense system, and Ukraine struck. .. with their own funds according to what is sacred in Russian military doctrine – an airfield with their strategic bombers, from which they were going to bomb Washington,” the expert noted.

Mass shelling of Ukraine on December 5 and explosions at Russian airbases – what you should know

On December 5, it became known that there were explosions in Russia at the Engels air base in the Saratov region and at the Diaghilev air base in Ryazan. At first, there was information that two Tu-95 bombers were damaged at the Engels base, and three people died as a result of a gas tanker explosion at the Diaghilev base.

On the same day, the Russian Federation carried out the eighth massive attack since the beginning of autumn on the objects of the critical infrastructure of our country.

The enemy launched more than 70 missiles, our defenders managed to eliminate 61 of them. Enemy missiles hit energy facilities located in Odesa, Kyiv and Vinnytsia regions.

Russia’s nuclear threats – what you need to know

The Russian Federation has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons. In particular, on September 27, Vladimir Putin stated that the Russian Federation may use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to its territorial integrity.

It is worth noting that Russia considers part of the Ukrainian territory to be its own.

Later, Putin said that the Russian Federation would not use a first nuclear weapon.

After that, the Russian president claimed that Russia could consider including in its military doctrine the task of a pre-emptive nuclear strike to disarm the enemy.