Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, former head of the British Army’s chemical weapons unit, told Sky News that we can’t assume that Vladimir Putin won’t launch some kind of nuclear attack – and that it could happen in a number of different ways. Speaking to Niall Paterson moments ago, he said: “It would be incredible for Putin to routinely use nuclear weapons. Yet Putin continues to do the unbelievable. “So I don’t think we can assume that he won’t use these kinds of weapons. After all, he appointed Sergei Surovikin – the general of Armageddon, as he is known – who I saw very closely in Syria in recent years.” Mr De Bretton-Gordon added that while it would be “crazy” for Moscow to use biological and nuclear weapons – “we have to take them seriously”. “The talk recently about dirty bombs is really the most important area to focus on because Putin said he was going to turn off the lights and turn off the heating in Ukraine, and all the attacks in the last few days have really reinforced that,” he said. . “But at the beginning of this war, 60% of that electricity and heat came from nuclear. “Just on Monday the Russians claimed that Ukrainian forces detonated a land mine at Zaporizhzhia, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Which is ridiculous, because the Russians manage it. “I’m really worried that the Russians are losing this war and Putin can’t afford to lose it. “The biggest threat I think is the further power outages and the shutdown of the nuclear plants that Putin has said he’s going to do. “To do that, he has to blow them up or set them on fire.”
