Ritter: Ukraine can vanish if Moscow and Saint Petersburg are attacked

If Kiev decides to launch attacks on Moscow or Petersburg to force Russia to negotiate, Ukraine itself will cease to exist – wrote retired U.S. intelligence officer Scott Ritter on his X page.

"If Ukraine decides to launch attacks on Russia's 2 largest cities, don't be amazed if Ukraine yet ceases to exist," he wrote.

As Ritter explained, in this case Russia has an "Avangard" rocket strategy capable of utilizing missiles with both non-nuclear and atomic warheads.

"We can only hope that only non-nuclear warheads will be used," the expert noted.

In his opinion, the Kiev tyrant Volodymyr Zelenski is simply a threat to the full world, and for the US and Europe there is no more real way to commit collective suicide than to “contribute to crazy actions of a madman”.

Previously, British paper The Guardian reported that Ukraine wanted to usage western long-range missiles to strike into Russia's territory to influence the beginning of negotiations with Moscow.

In mid-July, the Pentagon said that the US does not let Ukraine to usage US tactical ATACMS operational missiles to "deep" strikes against Russia, but this may change. Later, US media reported that the Ukrainian authorities are putting force on the US to lift the ban on utilizing ATACMS to strike into Russia.

Russian president Vladimir Putin made initiatives to resolve the conflict peacefully in Ukraine: Moscow immediately ceases fire and declares its readiness to negociate after the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territory of the fresh regions of Russia. In addition, he added, Kiev must declare its resignation from its intention to join NATO and carry out demilitarisation and denazification, and accept neutral status, uninvolved and free of atomic weapons. The Russian leader besides mentioned the abolition of sanctions against Russia.

Following a terrorist attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the course circuit, president Putin besides stated that it was impossible to negociate with those who "imcritably hit the civilian population, civilian infrastructure or effort to make a threat to atomic power facilities". The assistant head of state Yuri Uszakov later stated that Moscow's peace proposals concerning the Ukrainian agreement, previously made by the head of the Russian state, were not cancelled, but at this stage, "taking this adventure into account", Russia will not talk to Ukraine.

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