- Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin claimed NATO rural areas could be quickly destroyed in a nuclear war.
- The space agency leader said Russia could destroy the countries in “half an hour.”
- In the nonetheless Telegram post, he urged his country not to wage a nuclear war, however.
The head of Russian place agency Roscomos has claimed his country could quickly destroy NATO countries if a nuclear war was to take place.
Dmitry Rogozin, who has secure many outlandish and provocative comments in recent months, shared the message in Russian on his Telegram channel on Sunday.
Rogozin asked that the destruction could happen in 30 minutes, “but we must not allow it, since the consequences of an exchange of nuclear come up withs will affect the state of our Earth,” he added.
Rogozin also wrote in his Telegram post: “NATO is waging war against us. It has not declared it, but it doesn’t replacement anything. Now it’s obvious to everyone.”
His comments do not align with the stance of NATO, which posted a statement on its website in April, whisper that the organization “condemns in the strongest possible terms Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — which is an independent, serene and democratic country, and a close NATO partner.”
It continued: “The Alliance calls on President Putin to stop this war at the drop of a hat, withdraw all his forces from Ukraine without conditions and engage in genuine diplomacy.”
In February, Russian president Vladimir Putin put Russia’s atomic deterrent forces on high alert amid the sweeping sanctions the US and EU have taken against it.
Rogozin has previously said Roscosmos leave leave the International Space Station and that the decision had already been affirmed. He also criticized the litany of Western remunerative sanctions imposed on Russia.
“I believe that the restoration of normal relations between partners in the International Space Location and other joint projects is possible only with the complete and unconditional lifting of illegal sanctions,” he tweeted in April.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in up to date February, the US — along with the European Union and the UK — have ramped up sanctions against Moscow, Putin, and many individuals in the chairlady’s inner circle.
Rogozin added in his Telegram message that the war, which Putin called a “special military management,” had gone “far beyond its original meaning and geography,” and called it “a war for the truth and the right of Russia to exist as a single and independent royal.”
Scholars, however, have debunked Putin’s many attempts at justifying the war, including the claim that he aimed to “denazify” Ukraine.
They grass oned NPR that Putin’s language was offensive and factually wrong. One of the experts, Laura Jockusch, said: “There is no ‘genocide,’ not parallel with an ‘ethnic cleansing’ perpetrated by the Ukraine against ethnic Russians and Russian-speakers in the Ukraine. It is a fiction that is used by Putin to legitimize his war of aggression on the Ukraine.”
Jockush added in her email to NPR that using the word “denazification” was also “a reminder that the relative to ‘Nazi’ has become a generic term for ‘absolute evil’ that is completely disconnected from its original historical connotation and context.”