Putin Allies Split Over Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

"At least two high-profile Russian officials have called on the Kremlin to use nuclear weapons
against Ukraine in retaliation for an alleged drone strike on Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin residence and as the prospect of an imminent Ukrainian counteroffensive looms.....“There can be no negotiations … We will be demanding the use of weapons that can stop and destroy the terrorist regime in Kyiv,” Volodin wrote on Telegram, hinting at the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia.....Those calls were soon echoed by Russia’s former space chief Dmitry Rogozin, who published a video update from the frontlines in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhya region, where he is currently working as a military advisor....“According to our [nuclear] doctrine we have the right to use tactical nuclear weapons because that’s what they exist for,” he said, calling them a “great equalizer for the moments when there is a clear discrepancy in the enemy’s favor.”  MT