As numerous sources have indicated that the Ukrainian attack on Putin’s residence could not have been done without the go-ahead, indeed, even the order from their British masters, had it been successful, former weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, notes, it could have led to a nuclear response by Russia. Since Ukraine is operating effectively as a part of a NATO bloc intent on the defeat of Russia, an attack on the presidential residence ought to be properly viewed as “actions by an adversary affecting elements of critically important state or military infrastructure of the Russian Federation, the disablement of which would disrupt response actions by nuclear forces,” the criteria used in the Russian Security Doctrine as prompting a nuclear response.
“Had the Ukrainian attack succeeded, Russia would have carried out massive nuclear retaliation against all of Europe,” Ritter writes. “I don’t think the world understands how close it came to nuclear Armageddon.”
