West To Pulverize Russian Army If Putin Uses Nukes In Ukraine

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in an interview with CNN that he had privately conveyed to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu not to “go down this path and conduct this type of irresponsible behavior” like using tactical nuclear weapons, Kyiv Independent reported, even as US Senator Marco Rubio thinks Russia may hit weapon supply centers in Poland.

Photo Insert: US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin during a meeting with their Ukrainian counterparts and President Volodymyr Zelensky

In a phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Oct. 2, French President Emmanuel Macron condemned Russia’s recent illegal annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts and said France would help Ukraine restore “full sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

The country will also keep working with “European partners on new sanctions" against Russia, the Elysee Palace said.

Denmark, Norway, and Germany have committed $90 million to finance the production of Slovak Zuzana 2 self-propelled howitzers, Ukrainian newspaper Yevropeiska Pravda reported.

A total of 16 howitzers and thousands of artillery rounds will be delivered to Ukraine to be used in pushing out the Russians and their supporters in the Donbas and the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.

Ukraine’s operational command in the south has reported that Ukrainian warplanes carried out nine strikes on enemy forces, while rocket forces and artillery units conducted 550 firing missions, hitting logistical hubs and concentration points of military personnel and equipment.

Alona Mazurenko of Ukrainska Pravda reported that as a result of the operations on Oct. 2, 2022, a total of 64 Russian troops were killed, an ammunition storage was destroyed along with two self-propelled Msta-S howitzers, two anti-tank missile systems, 16 tanks, and 11 other armored vehicles.

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