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Asharq Al-Awsat
Asharq Al-Awsat
World
Washington - Ali Barada

Russia Could Repeat Syria’s Ghouta, Aleppo Scenarios in Ukraine

A Russian army RS-24 Yars ballistic missile system moves through Red Square during a military parade in 2020. (AFP)

Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, the former commander of the UK and NATO chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) forces, warned that strategic nuclear weapons can change the planet as we know it.

Russia and the West, including the US, UK, and France, have nearly 6,000 warheads between them. If launched, these warheads can lead to Mutually Assured Destruction, he added.

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