““This is the same irresponsible rhetoric that we’ve seen before and that we’ve seen, frankly, over the last two years.””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
She pointed out that Moscow has signaled its intention to update its nuclear doctrine in the past few weeks.
“This is the same irresponsible rhetoric that we’ve seen before and that we’ve seen, frankly, over the last two years. So that’s something we’ll continue to watch. But we don’t see any signs that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, and we don’t see any changes that need to be made to our own nuclear posture,” Singh said.
The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, signed the decree “On approval of the Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence”. The document was published on the official Russian legal information portal on November 19 and entered into force.
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The updated doctrine provides that the basis for a nuclear attack can be “aggression against the Russian Federation and its allies by any non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear state”, as well as a massive air attack by non-nuclear means, in particular drones.
Putin proposed to update the doctrine of nuclear deterrence at the meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on September 25. The spokesman of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmytro Peskov, said that the changes should be considered as a “certain signal” for the West. “This is a signal that warns these countries about the consequences in case of their participation in an attack on our country by various means, and not necessarily nuclear ones,” Peskov said.
Moscow updated its nuclear doctrine on the 1,000th day of the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine, as well as against the background of reports of Kyiv’s use of an American ATACMS missile to strike an ammunition depot near Bryansk.