Would Russia risk its partnership with China over using nuclear weapons in Ukraine? | DW News

Russia's military says it has begun tactical nuclear weapons drills near Ukraine.

The exercises are taking place in Russia's Southern Military District which, according to the Kremlin, includes parts of Ukraine under occupation.

Moscow says the drills are in response to threats from some Western officials. It's the first time Russia has publicly announced drills that involve tactical nuclear weapons while its strategic nuclear forces regularly hold exercises.

For more on this, we talk to Katarzyna Zysk. She is professor of International Relations and Contemporary History at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies.

And we talk to Mark Cancian. He's a retired Colonel in the US Marine Corps, and a senior Adviser with the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

00:00 Intro
00:33 Interview with Katarzyna Zysk
04:49 Interview with Mark Cancian

Follow DW on social media:

#Russia #NuclearWeapons #Drills

[untouchablex]

"China won't care. We are not using nuclear weapons. It's just special military projectiles." Russia

[chekeocha]

The Chinese will still stick with the Russians

[hackneo]

They aren’t risking anything with China, if anything all of this is coordinated WITH China. Staging nuclear weapons and running drills is not the same as launching them.

[Asif_Bcn]

Russia is not Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza ect.

[ywrxkbr]

Chinese had talks with Russia about it during Putin and xi visit. China says green light.

Where's all of the Chinese experts at?

[jage]

Dont forget that hiroshima was the same size as the "small" tactical is today...

[vervetech]

They said exactly the same thing when Russia warned against NATO expansion. NATO believed Russia wouldn't actually invade because Russia had much to lose from their relationship with Europe but they were wrong.
So there's no certainty that Russia wouldn't use nukes if their warnings are ignored because Russia sees this war as existential and is willing to escalate as possible.

[harrysmith]

China is a big country because China culture is more tolerant than other countries. Do you know why China can occupy a big size of land in Asia equal to whole Europe and has so many different people to live peacefully? On the other hand, Europe has similar land size as China but Europe was divided to a few dozens countries which fight frequently among themselves.

The reason is Europe culture is not tolerant as China. For example If there is food they do not like, other people are not allowed to eat this food as well. One specific example: some minorities in China (about 1% to 2% of China’s population) near Vietnam and Korea eat dog. So some people in Vietnam and Korea eat dog as well. It is some people’s culture in Asia. China as such a big country is more tolerant to the different culture from different races and group of people. That is why different races of people in China get along and become one country.

In Europe there is no tolerance. They discriminate China because 1-2% of China’s people eat dog. The difference also make Europe hostile towards each other. That is why world wars all start from Europe.

[cosmicpsyops]

DW acts super ignorant about geopolitics just to get views.

[eduardosimoes]

Tactical nuclear bombs can actually wipe out entire cities. The bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tactical. But no one mentioned it, so people think it's not a big deal.
Lousy journalism!

[pwn]

The American expert gave good and clear comments, invite him again.

[footballbrainiac]

even russias suggestion of nuclear weapons wreeks of worry for them

[kaloyanrosenov]

Why do you think China dont want Russia to destroy NATO with nuclear weapons ?
they will have full dominance after a nuclear war between Russia and NATO who will destroy each other !😅

[stanadams]

Interesting video NATO is obviously not afraid of Russia's threats but it's very interesting to hear that China has warned Russia against the use of Nuclear weapons.

[rnedmondson]

Russia and China together with the other nuclear powers (US, UK and France) gave security assurances to Ukraine in 1994 in return for Ukraine surrendering their nuclear weapons. The main motivation was to limit the spread of nuclear weapons. China has numerous technologically advanced neighbours (Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, Philipines, Vietnam etc) which could easily develop nuclear weapons for deterrence if they felt threatened by nuclear weapons. For this reason, China seems very unlikely to support unilateral use of nuclear weapons by Russia.

[ggaggagga]

Technically, "Tactical nuclear warheads" range from a fraction of a kiloton to approximately FIFTY KILOTONS. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were obliterated by weapons considered today to be low yield or tactical nukes.

[warukraine]

😂😂NATO's Hollywood LGBT army and weapons, as well as the Western media, are the object of ridicule around the world

[dubsar]

"Southern Military District". Sounds like the perfect place for Ukraine and Georgia to share a land border.

[mockingbbirdkilla]

Instead of regular shovels and washing machines, now they use glow in the dark shovels and washing machines.

[edwinsiala]

Mark Cancian is very level headed and objective and communicates clearly about Russian real redlines. The lady analyst is just another west leaning propagandist out to score points.