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'At the operational-tactical level, we did not think that within a year we would not be able to liberate the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. 'We did not think that there would be such heavy losses, although I then said there would be tens of thousands of dead on both sides. 'But everything turned out to be much worse.' Some estimates say the losses on both sides are now over 200,000, and rising fast. Russia alone is estimated to have lost as many as 140,000 since February last year. 'It was not expected that there would be such destruction: in fact,...

The United States and its allies started the psychological preparation of world public opinion for the possibility of using tactical nuclear weapons to resolve "the Iranian problem". The US propaganda machine is working hard to create the impression that a "surgically precise" use of the nuclear weapon with only limited consequences is possible. However, this has been known to be untrue since the 1945 US nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The operation's objective declared by the US - destroying some 1.500 targets on the territory of Iran - can only if tactical nuclear munitions are used...