MOSCOW, May 8 - RIA Novosti. The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that NATO countries would be destroyed by Russia in a nuclear war in half an hour, but urged it not to be allowed, he said in his Telegram channel .
"In a nuclear war, NATO countries will be destroyed by us in half an hour. But we must not allow it, because the consequences of the exchange of nuclear strikes will affect the state of our Earth," he wrote.
"NATO is waging a war against us. She didn't announce it, but that doesn't change anything. Now it's obvious to everyone. Ukrainian national soldiers and the Armed Forces of Ukraine are expendable, cannon fodder for NATO, they are only operators trained by NATO instructors who push the levers and buttons of NATO weapons," Rogozin added.
He believes that the special military operation has now gone far beyond its original meaning and geography and calls it "a war for the truth and the right of Russia to exist as a single and independent state."
Rogozin stressed that defeating a more economically and militarily powerful enemy with conventional armed means is possible only with the full solidarity of the whole country with the army, as well as the mobilization of the state's economy and the transfer of the military-industrial complex and related industrial sectors of Russia to military rails.
"And this must be done immediately and quickly," he concludes.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal "the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years." To do this, according to him, it is planned to carry out the "demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine", to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for "bloody crimes against civilians" of Donbass.
According to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces are striking only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage – significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.