“Peskov said this in response to a question about the likelihood of a nuclear response due to a drone attack on Russia”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“There is no need to exaggerate this document. It is extremely important, thus, and important decisions will be formed accordingly. But the special military operation is going according to plan, and not everything should be tied to it,” the spokesman told reporters.
Peskov said this while answering a question about the likelihood of a nuclear response due to a drone attack on Russia.
On September 29, Russian air defenses destroyed 125 Ukrainian drones in seven regions of the Russian Federation, as well as over the Sea of Azov. One of the new provisions of the doctrine provides that reliable information about a large-scale air attack on Russia can justify a nuclear response by Moscow.
On September 25, Putin announced a nuclear response against the background of Kyiv’s efforts to obtain permission from the West to strike with Western weapons deep into the Russian Federation.
According to him, in the updated version of its nuclear doctrine, Russia plans to consider aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, as a joint attack. Putin noted that Moscow will consider the possibility of using nuclear weapons upon receiving “reliable information about the massive launch of air and space attack means.” These are strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft.
The Office of the President of Ukraine called Putin’s words another “nuclear blackmail”.
On September 7, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, commenting on Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons, said that Putin will continue to periodically threaten direct confrontation with the West, but these threats should not intimidate the West.