Overview

• Sergei Karaganov urged preparing to strike Europe and argued that refraining from nuclear use could be a greater sin than deploying such weapons.
• He called for returning warheads from storage to arm intermediate- and shorter-range missiles as a signal to European governments.
• Karaganov claimed a limited nuclear war in Europe could prevent a larger thermonuclear confrontation with the United States and said a nuclear war can be won.
• On Kremlin-backed TV, Vladimir Solovyov proposed bombing Oxford and Cambridge to decimate Britain’s elite and mocked UK political leaders and the royal family.
• The reports describe a sharper pro-nuclear drumbeat within Putin’s orbit, while noting no evidence of an actual deployment change or formal policy shift.