Putin ‘Giving Thought to Using Nukes in Ukraine’

Fears of a nuclear holocaust have exploded after Russia rejected President Donald Trump’s “ultimatum” to sign a ceasefire deal and end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, Knewz.com can confirm. The president has already promised severe 100 percent secondary tariffs on Moscow if they continue to attack Ukraine. He previously boasted about being able to “bomb the s***” out of Russia for its invasion.

Russia continues to bomb Ukraine, despite Trump’s warning. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said “any attempts to make demands, especially ultimatums, are unacceptable to us,” according to Russia’s state-run TASS news agency. The bickering between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has neighboring countries concerned. In an op-ed in London’s Telegraph, Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former Colonel and expert on weapons of mass destruction, wrote the threat of nuclear retaliation is more real than ever. “Nuclear deterrence relies on parity and equilibrium to be effective, and this stance has been severely shaken by some of the U.S. president’s comments about Europe in recent months,” he wrote. “That may have given the Kremlin the indication that the U.S. would not react if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine or even in Europe. “The fact that Putin and his gangsters have threatened nuclear attack continuously since the wider war in Ukraine began suggests they are thinking about it in detail. As three days have become three years plus, they may think they can finish off Ukraine quickly with tactical nukes, and we would not react.”

Trump famously promised during his campaign for a second term to end the ongoing Russia and Ukraine conflict on “day one” – and it seems he was previously prepared to put his military where his mouth is. In recently leaked audio, the former-and-future president told a 2024 fundraising crowd about a warning he had given other world leaders years earlier. Trump can be heard on the tape relaying, “With Putin I said, ‘If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the s*** out of Moscow. I’m telling you I have no choice.’” The business tycoon said Putin fired back, “I don’t believe you, no way,” to which he countered, “Way.”

The president has not been shy about speaking sharply with both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war. He previously tried to pressure Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to agree to an unconditional ceasefire of his own. In March, a White House official said, “President Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well.”

Trump also launched a fresh attack on Zelensky in a statement on social media, insisting the Ukrainian president “won’t be around very long” if he does not rapidly commit to a ceasefire with Russia. When contacted for comment, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly deflected the blame for the ongoing conflict to Joe Biden, saying, “Russia never dared invade Ukraine” during Trump’s first term. “Thanks to this President’s leadership, America is once again the leader of the free world, and peace through strength is restored,” Kelly said in a statement to Newsweek. “Trump won on an America First agenda, and he is working hard to implement the mandate the American people gave him.”