The Growing Nuclear Risk in Russia: Insights from Nobel Prize-winning Journalist Dmitry Muratov.

Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov has warned that no one knows if Vladimir Putin would use nuclear weapons in his standoff with the West. He claimed that the Kremlin tries to sell Russians on nuclear weapons with advertisements like it’s “pet food.” Muratov believes the threats should be taken seriously, and the Russian populace is “irradiated” by government propaganda that portrays the Kremlin as an arbiter of peace. He also claimed that most Russians are “categorically against” the war in Ukraine, and many are already speaking out.