Russia unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine on Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping departed from Moscow following talks with President Vladimir Putin.

Russia has already "used" nuclear weapons. It's used them highly successfully without firing them, by trading on empty threats about potential nuclear strikes to very effectively deter the West from fully supporting Ukraine,

No matter how many times Putin waves his nukes around for the Western press, they do not meaningfully change the course of war in Ukraine. There is no obvious way to use them for victory, and a nuclear strike on NATO would be suicidal.

Moscow has prompted fresh concern over its willingness to deploy the devastating weapons, today commencing exercises with its Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems

Nikolai Patrushev, who is seen by many as the brains behind Vladimir Putin's ill-conceived war in Ukraine, claimed that Russia is 'not intimidating anyone with its military superiority'.