Fiona Hill, a British-born Russia expert and former White House intelligence adviser, said Putin s nuclear blackmail was likely to increase the international demand for nuclear arms.
Putin has launched a major salvage operation to the wreck of the downed Black Sea Fleet flagship to secure military secrets including coding devices and unexploded missiles, experts have claimed.
The young naval sailors, many of whom are 19-years-old, are missing and presumed dead after being on board the stricken Moskva flagship when it was hit by two Ukrainian missiles.