London, SAEDNEWS: Nina Khrushcheva, a professor of international affairs in the US, told the BBC that she believes Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually do whatever it takes to claim victory in the war.
“I think this war is really the one that Putin plans to win, and plans to win at any cost. If he needs to declare victory and he may need to use tactical nuclear weapons - I’m not predicting that - that could be one of the options the Russians may be prepared to use,” she said.
Tactical nuclear weapons are less powerful than the longer-range missiles that loomed over the Cold War era when Nikita Khruschev led the Soviet Union.
But Ms Khrushcheva - a Russia scholar at the New School in New York and long-time critic of Mr Putin - fears Moscow could use them to devastating effect on Ukrainian soil.
In March, days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Ms Khrushcheva had said she was embarrassed by the development and that her great-grandfather would have found the attack "despicable" (Source: BBC).
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