Footage shows Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, following America's atom bomb attacks on Japan. Russian President Vladimir Putin made an alarming threat that the cites during a conversation with France’s Emmanuel Macron, telling the leader that the attacks prove that a major city doesn’t need to be targeted to win a war, according to a report. Putin appeared to be giving a “very heavy hint” to his plans in Ukraine when he referenced the US forces’ attacks against the two Japanese cities in 1945, which hastened the end of World War II in the Pacific, a French government source told the Mail on Sunday. “You don’t need to attack major cities in order to end a war,” the Russian leader reportedly said.