Ukraine Gives Out Potassium Iodine Pills in Anticipation of a Nuclear Attack
As Russia suffers humiliating losses in its war with Ukraine, the latter is starting to prepare for a possible nuclear attack from Russia—an unlikely event to occur but nonetheless should be anticipated—by preparing its stocks of potassium iodine pills for distribution. Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv announced it is distributing potassium iodine pills to evacuation centers to mitigate the effects of a possible Russian nuclear strike on the capital. Potassium iodine pills can help block the absorption of radiation from a nuclear attack.
The preparations come on the heels of a chilling NATO report about a missing Russian submarine, the Belgorod, which is feared to have traveled to the Kara Sea to preposition itself for a tactical nuclear strike. The submarine is believed to be carrying Russia’s harbinger of the apocalypse: Poseidon—an unmanned underwater vehicle carrying a nuclear warhead.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has severely underestimated Ukraine’s ability to defend itself, resulting in massive losses for Russia. Already, Ukraine’s counteroffensives are producing victories, recapturing swathes of Donbas territory previously captured by Putin’s soldiers. On October 5, the Washington Post reported that after Russia’s illegal annexation of provinces in the eastern Donbas region, Russian troops have withdrawn from Lyman while leaving a path of death and destruction.
In a speech in September, Putin implied the use of nuclear arms, saying he would resort to “all available means” to defend Russian territory—presumably including those he illegally took from Ukraine—raising alarm at NATO and Washington. “This is not a bluff,” Mr. Putin said. His proclamations may all be just military fluff, the howls of a wounded animal, but nonetheless one with nuclear weapons.
In what seemed like a desperate effort to capture more Ukrainian territories, Putin mobilized reservists in September—the first time it has done so since World War II. And if that fails? It’s hard to think that Western powers will not react.
