Russia’s ‘good scenario’ for war includes dropping a nuclear bomb | News World

Russia’s ‘good’ outcome for the next 25 years would involve the use of nuclear weapons, according to a report.

The country’s annual economic forum kicked off on Wednesday in St Petersburg, attended by Vladimir Putin and business heavyweights from across the globe.

Presenting at the conference was Konstantin Malofeev, founder of the Russian Orthodox media network Tsargrad, who presented a ‘Russia 2050’ report with three possible scenarios.

The ‘good’ scenario involves Russia ‘obtaining a clear image of victory in the ideological war’ using nuclear weapons, annexing Ukrainian cities including Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv ‘and so on,’ and seeing the European Union crumble.

A ‘bad’ scenario would see Russia lose its war in Ukraine and be ‘colonised’ by 2050, while an ‘inertial’ result would end in ‘American and Chinese hegemony’ and would see Russia use nuclear weapons by 2036.

Malofeev has vocally supported the annexation of Crimea and has funded efforts to destabilise Ukraine, including Russia’s 2014 Donbas operation.

He is sanctioned by the UK for ‘acting in support of the destabilisation of Eastern Ukraine’, and the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) says he has faced a criminal investigation into his alleged support to separatists in the region.

Malofeev was joined onstage by Alexander Dugin, co-author of the report who is also sanctioned by the UK, US and EU.

The FCDO says he ‘is or has been involved in destabilising Ukraine by being responsible for, engaging in, providing support for, or promoting any policy or action which destabilises Ukraine or undermines or threatens the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine.’

Dugin told audiences at the summit that the unpublished report had already been presented at the Russian Ministry of Defence’s General Staff Academy.

It comes after St Petersburg was attacked in a Ukrainian drone strike the night before the economic forum began.

The city’s governor, Alexander Beglov, said ‘infrastructure objects’ in three districts of the city had been hit on Wednesday.

Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the drones had struck several ‘military targets’, including the Petersburg Oil Terminal ‘which serves the war’ and ‘an enterprise in the Tambov region involved in the production of Russian weapons’.

In a post to X, he said: ‘Important facilities on Russian territory were hit last night.

‘I thank our warriors for their precision. Ukraine’s plan for long-range sanctions is being implemented exactly as needed to bring peace closer. Glory to Ukraine!’

Beglov confirmed in a post on Telegram that clean-up efforts are underway and that several people had been injured, but there were no fatalities as a result of last night’s strike.

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