The fear of nuclear stroke: the United States was pressed on Kiev to give the Armed Forces to retreat from Kherson in 2022 - the media

About it in his book "War" wrote journalist Bob Woodward after communicating with a number of American officials. The journalist points out that during Kherson's release operation in the fall of 2022, exploration of the United States warned about increasing the risk of nuclear weapons from the Russian Federation. Such a scenario would be possible if the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation would lose the main forces during the retreat from the city.

However, according to the Armed Forces Command Plan, Ukrainian troops had to persecute the Russians who retreated from the city and to strike massive blows. However, this did not happen because of the US pressure to suspend the operation. This allowed the Russian troops to retreat from the regional center without significant losses, the journalist indicates.

Unnamed officials told Woodward that the intelligence services had warned Baiden about increasing the risk of nuclear impact up to 50%, if the Armed Forces were struck by Russian troops that would retreat from Kherson. It was then that the former head of the Joint Committee of the Headquarters of the US Army Headquarters, General Mark Millie called to the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, General Valery Gerasimov on this issue.

In a conversation, the Russian general declared to his American colleague that in the event of significant losses, they are ready to use nuclear weapons. It was because of the fear of a nuclear stroke factor that the United States gave a kind of security guarantees for the Russians and began to press on the Ukrainian authorities. For units of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation can safely move away from Kherson.

Woodward writes that it was the pressure on Kiev that forced the Armed Forces to "just wait" and watch the Russian units calmly crossed the left bank of the Dnieper with equipment and personnel of 30 thousand people, without suffered significant losses. Earlier it was reported that the United States estimated the likelihood of a nuclear impact of the Russian Federation in 50% in the fall of 2022. The US leadership was a concern for Russia's tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.