Dhritiman Mukherjee

@dhritiman-mukherjee

I am currently registered as a Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Department of Political Science, Presidency University, Kolkata. My research interests lie in International Politics, India's foreign policy, Indo-Pak Relations and Nuclear Deterrence.

Ukraine Crisis: Rationale of Russia’s Nuclear Threats and its Seriousness

Ukraine Crisis: Rationale of Russia’s Nuclear Threats and its Seriousness

Firstly, the war in Ukraine has huge escalatory potential since it has not gone according to the plan of Putin. The Kremlin had assumed that the war against Ukraine would be over quite quickly considering the huge gap of military capabilities that exist between Russia and its eastern neighbour.