Russia is noe sending the people who know how to deal with the nukes to the front lines. Nukes have to be carefully handled (yeah, I know, dropping one on its head won't make it detonate, but it may make it so it won't detonate) and require a lot of maintenance. Russia may well end up with an inoperable arsenal.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.