Fiona Hill, the former senior director for the European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council, spoke about the Russia-Ukraine war on Tuesday.
Fiona Hill, the former senior director for the European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council,At one point during the segment, Hill was asked to what extremes she believes Putin would go in Ukraine following the invasion in late February and whether he would use nuclear weapons. Last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia using them was an option.
"Of course he [Putin] would. And the thing is, he's already rhetorically done it, right?" Hill said."He's put us in a position that we've never been before with the Soviet Union and Russia, even going back to the Cold War when we knew that part of the military doctrine was to use military weapons and biological and chemical weapons, as well, in extreme circumstances in the context of an existential threat to the Soviet Union, which there isn't right now to Russia.
Fiona Hill, a former senior director for Europe and Russia at the National Security Council, said during a podcast that believes Russian President Vladimir Putin using nuclear weapons in Ukraine is within the realm of possibility. Above, Hill during a hearing in Washington, D.C., on February 2, 2022. She went on to compare Putin's tactics in Ukraine with those of another leader.
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