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Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin claimed that NATO countries could be quickly destroyed in a nuclear war.
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The leader of the Russian space agency said on Telegram that Russia could destroy them in “half an hour”.
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In the same position, however, he urged his country not to engage in nuclear war.
The head of the Russian space agency Roscomos has claimed that his country could quickly destroy NATO countries if nuclear war were to take place.
Dmitry Rogozin, who has made many bizarre and provocative comments in recent months, shared the message in Russian on his Telegram channel on Sunday. He claimed the destruction could happen in 30 minutes. “But we must not allow it, as the consequences of an exchange of nuclear strikes will affect the state of our Earth,” he added.
“Therefore, we will have to defeat this economically and militarily stronger enemy by conventional military means,” Rogozin continued.
In February, Russian President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces on edge amid sweeping US and EU sanctions against Russia.
NATO posted a statement on its website in April, saying that the organization “condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine – which is an independent, peaceful and democratic country and a close NATO partner.”
It continued: “The Alliance calls on President Putin to immediately end this war, unconditionally withdraw all his troops from Ukraine and engage in genuine diplomacy.”
Rogozin wrote in his Telegram message: “NATO is waging war on us. It hasn’t declared it, but it doesn’t change anything. Now it’s clear to everyone.”
In April, Rogozin said that Roscosmos would leave the International Space Station and that the decision had already been confirmed. He also criticized the litany of Western economic sanctions against Russia.
“I believe that the restoration of normal relations between partners in the International Space Station and other joint projects is only possible with the complete and unconditional lifting of illegal sanctions,” he said. tweeted in April.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, the US — along with the European Union and the UK — has stepped up sanctions against Moscow, Putin and many individuals in the leader’s inner circle.
Rogozin added in his Telegram message that the war, which Putin called a “special military operation”, had gone “far beyond its original meaning and geography”, calling it “a war for the truth and Russia’s right to act as a single and independent state.”
However, scholars have debunked Putin’s many attempts to justify the war, including the fact that he wanted to “denazify” Ukraine.
They told NPR that Putin’s language was offensive and factually inaccurate. One of the experts, Laura Jockusch, said: “There is no ‘genocide’, not even an ‘ethnic cleansing’ committed by Ukraine against ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in Ukraine. It is a fiction used by Putin to justify its war of aggression against Ukraine.”
Jockush added in her email to NPR that the use of the word “denazification” was also “a reminder that the term ‘Nazi’ has become a generic term for ‘absolute evil’ completely separate from its original historical meaning and context.”
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