The head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, does not expect Russia to use nuclear weapons in the Ukraine war. Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin knows “that he no nuclear weapons because he will then lose the support of his most important partner China, which has warned against the use of nuclear weapons,” he says to the “Rheinische Post”. “He won’t risk that. Without China, Russia is isolated in the world.”
Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons “to intimidate us in Germany and Europe in particular.”
Heusgen currently sees no basis for peace negotiations. “I am always in favor of not ruling out peace talks,” he said. There are certainly negotiations behind the scenes that have led to the exchange of prisoners or the export of grain from Ukrainian ports. “I currently see no basis for talkswhich could lead to an end to the war, because the war aims of Russia and Ukraine are very far apart.”