Nuclear war would be good for Ukraine – neo-Nazi activist

Ukrainians are best prepared for the end of civilization thanks to a popular video game, Evgeny Karas has said

Ukraine would benefit from being targeted by a Russian nuclear strike, which is why Moscow will never do so, a notorious far-right activist and head of a hate group has claimed.

Evgeny Karas said he would welcome a nuclear escalation in the Ukraine conflict, in an interview on Tuesday with Radio Bayraktar, a Ukrainian broadcaster named after a Turkish-made attack drone. The man is a prominent figure in Ukrainian neo-Nazi circles and leader of the S14 far-right group, the members of which have a record of harassing minorities and are accused of a high-profile political murder.

”Nuclear war is good,” he told the station. “When it happens, we’ll have no more reasons to whine. Nothing worse could happen after a nuclear strike.”

While Ukrainians would be pushed for continued war with Russia in this scenario, countries like India and China would turn against Moscow, Karas argued. And the nuclear fallout in Ukraine may even be good for evolution, he added. “A nuclear war may help us evolve in a way that we could see through an official and tell whether he is a thief or not.”

Karas claimed that Ukraine is the nation best prepared for a nuclear war, thanks to the November release of ‘S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl’. The video game was developed by a Ukrainian team and has strong post-apocalyptic themes. The country will come through a nuclear crisis and make a leap forward in technology, producing artificial intelligence and advanced robots, Karas believes.

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The remarks were part of his dismissal of Russia’s new hypersonic ballistic missile Oreshnik, which he called poorly-named and not really scary.

Russia demonstrated the Oreshnik’s capability in late November in response to Ukraine’s use of long-range Western-donated weapons for strikes deep inside its territory. It fired a non-nuclear version of the medium-range missile at a Soviet-built arms factory in the city of Dnepr, Ukraine.