PUTIN: Russians 'will go to heaven' in event of nuclear war…
He Said His People Will ‘Go To Heaven,’ But The Country That Attacks ‘Won’t Have A Chance To Repent.’
https://www.trunews.com/stream/putin-russians-will-be-martyrs-in-world-war-iii
Speaking today at an international policy forum he was hosting in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his government’s policy is to only use nuclear weapons as a response to a first strike from another country. He told the audience: “Only when we become convinced that there is an incoming attack on the territory of Russia, and that happens within seconds, only after that we would launch a retaliatory strike. It would naturally mean a global catastrophe, but I want to emphasize that we can't be those who initiate it because we don't foresee a preventive strike. The aggressor should know that retaliation is inevitable, and he will be destroyed.”
Putin said Russians would be “victims of an aggression” and would “get to heaven as martyrs," while those who launched the attack would "just die and not even have time to repent.” He also warned would-be aggressors that his country has hypersonic weapons that give it a superior military edge: “We have run ahead of the competition. No one has precision hypersonic weapons. Others are planning to start testing them within the next one and a half to two years, and we already have them on duty.”
Russia already has deployed the Kinzhal hypersonic missile that is launched from aircraft. In the next few months, it will also deploy the Avangard hypersonic ICBM that can fly at 20 times the speed of sound, making it impossible to hit with current aerial defense systems. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also held an interview with RT France earlier today in which he said he hoped the West would be “wise enough” to prevent World War III. He also said he thought Moscow and Washington should forge a new agreement that reaffirms the futility of nuclear war, which he said is “impossible to win.”