The Russian Federation uses fear of nuclear war to hold back military assistance to Ukraine - ISW

According to analysts, the Kremlin will most likely not have a dialogue about the renewal of the SNO contract and will continue to threaten the world with the use of weapons of mass defeat. Russia uses fear of nuclear escalation to slow down the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine. This conclusion was reached by analysts of the Institute of War Study (ISW) in its report published on March 2.

Analysts are convinced that the Kremlin will continue to be nuclear threats, hoping to intimidate the event, although the probability of using a mass of mass defeat on the part of the Russian Federation is extremely small. "It is likely that the Kremlin uses the fear of nuclear escalation and suspension of the new SNO contract in the hope of holding back the support of Ukraine by the event and slowing down the promised Western supply of military assistance," the report reads.

We will remind, at the G20 summit in Delhi (India) on March 2, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken appealed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov and called on the Kremlin to review the decision on the exit from the Treaty of SNO, which provides for the mutual reduction of arsenals of deployed strategic nuclear weapons.