On 8 May 2022, Dmitry Rogozin - vice-president of the Russian government, director of Roscosmos and former ambassador to NATO - stated that, in the event of a nuclear war, NATO countries would be destroyed by Russia in half an hour, but this must be avoided because the consequences would affect the whole planet. “Therefore, we will have to defeat this enemy, economically and militarily, by conventional armed means,” he added.

YouTube immediately removed all of Dmitry Rogozin’s videos.