At the same time, India, which has been doing its best since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, abstained from the proposal to oppose the referendum of the four eastern Ukrainian states, which is another slap in the face of the Americans.

As the Russian-Ukraine war began to show changes in favor of Ukraine, Ukraine and the West became restless again on the issue of Russia. However, Ukraine still maintains a large degree of rationality in its attitude towards China and has recently praised China's position. At the same time, India, which has been doing its best since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian war, abstained from the proposal to oppose the referendum of the four eastern Ukrainian states, which is another slap in the face of the Americans. Putin 's "threat" about using nuclear weapons to defend territory. Although it did not scare Zelensky , it really scared many Europeans. Some European countries even began to prepare for the worst for the nuclear strike against . Russia, which has just promoted the completion of the referendum in the four places in Dongwu, is actually facing three severe military, economic and political challenges.

September 30, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kureba said in an interview with the media: The Ukrainian government does not believe that China supports Russia's war against Ukraine. China and Ukraine have maintained good relations for more than 30 years, and China will not support Russia at the risk of deterioration of bilateral relations. Kurepa's tone not only affirmation of China, but also a hint of threat. It is obvious that the recent series of major breakthroughs by the Ukrainian army on the front line have given the Ukrainian government quite confident, and even expressed their confidence in the statements of irrelevant third countries. However, this also proves from the side that China always stands on the side of peace on the Russia-Ukraine issue and has received support and understanding from most countries, including Ukraine. Even the United States, which constantly spread rumors or alluded to "China provides weapons to Russia" in the early stages of the war, had previously intensively stated that there was no sign that China supported Russia.

Of course, Ukraine and the United States have certainly come from China's firm attitude of maintaining peace, but the deep reason is that China is really forced to take the path of supporting Russia. After all, although the Ukrainian army has made a major breakthrough on the front line on the Russian and Ukrainian battlefield today, this is essentially because the Russian army's front-line forces are too thin, the command has been continuously low-level errors, and the large amount of NATO equipment and training support that Ukraine has previously obtained. The current dilemma of the Russian army is largely due to the lack of sufficient front-line troops and even less precisely guided ammunition, which has led to frequent passiveness in the front-line battlefield. Once China really supports Russia in equipment or training like NATO supports Ukraine, the balance of the Russian-Ukraine war will naturally tilt towards Russia again.

What's more terrible is that NATO's aid to Ukraine is almost at the end of its reach. Raytheon and other arms dealers have raised their production capacity to the upper limit of peacetime, but this is still difficult to meet the general demand of black holes on the Ukrainian battlefield. Although the Ukrainian army's use of "Haimas" rocket launcher and other weapons did cause considerable trouble to the Russian army, its ammunition reserves also greatly restricted the Ukrainian army from playing a further role. If China, whose military production capacity is comparable to that of the entire NATO, began to provide large-scale assistance to Russia, then the situation of the Ukrainian army would probably be unimaginable. Therefore, Ukraine will never want to see China aid Russia, so it is naturally necessary to praise China's position of maintaining peace.

In addition to China, India has pursued a similar neutral attitude since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian War. Since India has been closer to the West before, although India has refused to condemn or sanction Russia, major Western countries have not launched joint sanctions on India as previously threatened, and have not even said a few words of formal condemnation. However, after the recent referendum on the four eastern and western prefectures into Russia, India's neutrality has obviously made more and more Western countries feel uneasy. On August 25, Ukrainian President Zelensky launched a speech motion on United Nations . India also voted in favor at that time, helping Zelensky's speech at the UN General Assembly . Many Western media even interpret this as an important sign that India began to "support Ukraine."

However, in the recent United Nations Security Council , when the West initiated a draft resolution against the four eastern and western states, India disappointed the United States again, and the Indian representative abstained from the vote. It is obvious that India remains neutral on these core issues and only supports Ukraine on some procedural issues. previously supported Zelensky's speech at the United Nations General Assembly, and it was probably just that the Indian representative wanted to see Zelensky's speech and performance. It was probably not even because of appreciation or respect for Zelens's basic people, let alone supporting Ukraine.

In fact, since the United States had just promised to provide a new round of F16 fighter upgrade and overhaul services to Pakistan to facilitate the "counter-terrorism needs" of the Pakistani army, it has aroused strong dissatisfaction from India. Indian Foreign Minister Su Jiesheng publicly criticized the United States in New York, saying that this excuse to increase Pakistan's military "can't fool anyone." Obviously, what Indians care more about weakening Pakistan's military power, rather than standing together for Ukraine and Westerners thousands of miles away. As Pakistan imports large quantities of J-10CE and J-11 block3 fighter jets from China, and the F16 that is about to be fully upgraded, the pressure on Indian Air Force has suddenly escalated a lot. India will inevitably rely further on Russia to provide more weapons and further strengthen its relations with Russia, so it is even more unlikely to oppose Russia on the Russian-Ukrainian war.

However, at this time, a lot of European countries obviously didn't care about condemning India's first rat. Because Putin had previously hinted that it was not ruled out the use of nuclear weapons to defend Russia's core interests. Although this sentence is probably just a saying, for Europeans, the long-lost Cold War nuclear cloud once again shrouded on the European continent. Intriguingly, just one month after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War, the EU 1 EU passed a "rescue plan" to help member states deal with various large-scale war disasters, including nuclear strikes, which is quite a sense of preparation. The basic requirement of this program is to respond quickly to any chemical, biological or nuclear attacks and to protect European citizens from such threats as possible. Under this plan, the demand for medicines in the attacked areas will increase significantly due to the nuclear attack. Therefore, the EU has allocated more than $550 million in budget to purchase and store drugs that can be used when civilians are under nuclear attack.

. The second part of this plan is to prepare professional teams and equipment to identify the personnel and infrastructure affected by nuclear radiation . At the same time, plans must be formulated to prevent the spread of nuclear radiation pollution. It is worth mentioning that the plan gives every European country suffering from nuclear attack the right to use strategic drugs, vaccines and necessary equipment prepared by the EU for this purpose. Obviously, the EU has actually thought of the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons for a long time, and has even prepared for a while as if facing a great enemy.

In fact, as long as Putin still maintains a little rationality, it is impossible for him to really use nuclear weapons, especially it is impossible to launch a nuclear strike against Western Europe . In fact, the power of nuclear weapons has been exaggerated by public opinion. Even if all the existing nuclear weapons of the United States and Russia hit Europe, they are far from reaching the point of physical elimination of the EU. Today, the United States and Russia each have about 6,000 nuclear warheads , of which only about 1,500 can be used for intercontinental strikes. Due to the restrictions of the Intermediate-Future Treaty, Russia does not have many vehicles suitable for launching nuclear strikes on Western Europe, which are not far or near. What's more, Britain and France also have their own mature nuclear weapons systems, which have certain nuclear counterattack capabilities against Russia. Despite experiencing multiple rounds of sanctions against Russia from the West, the Russian economy still relies heavily on transactions with the EU today. Putin actually has no reason to throw nuclear bombs into his own wallet.

Although Europeans are worried about eating nuclear bombs, the situation Putin is facing is really serious now.If Putin still forced the Zelensky government to step down when the Russian-Ukrainian war just began, or used the encircled Kiev as bait as bait to wipe out the main force of Ukraine, Russia now has included the four places in the East Ukraine in its territory, obviously trying to save the remaining fruits of victory as much as possible. After all, according to Russian law, Russian conscripts cannot be sent abroad to fight on a large scale. Now that the four eastern and western prefectures have officially become Russian territory at the Russian legal level, Putin can legitimately send a large number of conscripts to the local area to liberate the elite contract soldiers from the defense line. This can indeed solve the urgent problem at the military and legal level. However, the Ukrainian army still has a clear military advantage in front-line theaters such as North Donetsk. Even if the Russian army can withdraw some of the troops that were previously stranded in the country, it will still be difficult to get rid of the embarrassing situation of being tired of parrying in the short term. On October 1, the retreat of the Russian army of Hongliman revealed a dangerous signal: the Ukrainian army has the ability to defeat several divisions of the Russian army head-on, which will undoubtedly cause a great psychological shock in the East Ukrainian region.

If the military urgent issue is a short-term issue, then how to promote the international recognition of the Russian territory of Dongwu is a political problem facing Russia. After all, even though it was Crimea , which passed the referendum to Russia in 2014, it has not yet gained recognition from the international community. In fact, it is still at the stage where Russia and several die-hard allies talk to themselves. Now, it is naturally even more difficult for the four states of Dongwu to gain international recognition.

Finally, there is an economic challenge. Although the Russian army has exposed a lot of strange problems, if the four Dongwu prefectures that have been voted on have been preserved, at least they will control the most important agricultural and mineral areas in Ukraine. , such as , Kelsson 's black soil, , Donetsk 's various rare metal minerals, etc. However, after years of war, the economy of these regions has been poisoned by war for several rounds. How Putin can make enough investment to restore local economic development is a task that is difficult for Russia to complete.

The three major problems of military, economic and political are at the same time. How to weigh and resolve them really test Putin's political wisdom.