The general still mourns his long-lost nukes. Flooding from leaking pipes has made the walls and ceilings damp in the Soviet Strategic Missile Forces Veterans Office in Kyiv, causing pictures of his missile arsenal to bubble and bend. He walked through rooms of faded nuclear glory with sad nostalgia, touching pieces of “Satan” intercontinental ballistic missile engines; tritium boosters and fragments of SS-24 “Scalpel” rocket launch systems on tabletops, all that is left of Ukraine’s nuclear missile stockpile, once the third largest in the world, as workmen began to box them, taking them away into storage in preparation to close the office for good. Sponsored“I knew deep in my soul that we should never have given them away,” he said, caressing vestiges of machinery that

Source: The Times February 12, 2022 08:01 UTC