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    Doyle McManus: Putin's threat of a nuclear strike on Ukraine may not be a bluff. What do we do now?

    After weeks of reverses, Russia's army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin's response, characteristically, has been to escalate on other fronts. Putin expanded the military draft, announcing a call-up of 300,000 reservists and prompting an exodus of Russian men to neighboring countries. On Friday, he formally announced Russia's annexation of four ...
    by Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Oct 03, 2022 3 minutes
    From left to right: The Moscow- appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Luhansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik react after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin...

    After weeks of reverses, Russia's army is still losing ground in the battlefields of Ukraine.

    President Vladimir Putin's response, characteristically, has been to escalate on other fronts.

    Putin expanded the military draft, announcing a call-up of 300,000 reservists and prompting an exodus of Russian men to neighboring countries.

    On Friday, he formally announced Russia's annexation of four Ukrainian provinces, turning them — at least rhetorically — into Russian territory that he can never negotiate away.

    Most chilling, Putin that he is ready to use nuclear weapons if Ukraine's troops try to take those provinces back.

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