

Russia's hawks want Putin to go nuclear
The loudest pressure on the Kremlin right now is coming from its own side.
After a month of Ukrainian drones hitting Moscow, St Petersburg, Crimea and an oil refinery inside Moscow itself, the nationalist wing has decided the war is being fought far too softly, and that a U.S. promise to end it on Russia's terms never showed up.
So now the demands are out loud. Full mobilisation, levelling Kyiv's government district, killing Zelensky, bombing the European plants that build Ukraine's drones, and at the far end, reaching for tactical nukes.
The one saying it plainest is Konstantin Malofeyev, a hardline tycoon who bankrolls much of this nationalist scene.
"Why are we not using nuclear weapons, which our forebears developed and stockpiled with the full might of the nation precisely for this purpose?"
For now, the only thing holding all of it back is Putin himself.
Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniyal
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