Head of dissolved party urges St. Petersburg legislature to petition Putin for nuclear strike on Ukraine — then has his microphone cut off
A member of the Social Protection Party’s supreme council urged St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly to petition Vladimir Putin to strike Ukraine with nuclear weapons.
The proposal came from Viktor Perov, who had been invited to address the assembly alongside other politicians not represented in the legislature.
Perov used his remarks to address the Russia–Ukraine war. In his view, “the criminal regime of Zelensky under the patronage of the European Union” had attacked Russia with the goal of “establishing a bandit Banderite neo-Nazi regime.” That is why Putin “was forced” to launch the ”SVO,” but “things did not go as planned,” he said.
That is why I believe that you, as deputies, must appeal to the president with a petition to begin using nuclear weapons and strike the supporters of Bandera and Shukhevych with them, which will bring Ukraine’s leadership to sign a peace agreement and end the SVO.
His microphone was cut off before he could finish, the Telegram channel Rotonda notes.
On June 3, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, dissolved the Social Protection Party, founded in 2012. Perov joined the party in 2018; over the years he has been a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the Communists of Russia party.
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