“Russia plans to consider aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of nuclear countries, as a joint attack”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to him, Russia plans to consider aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, as a joint attack.
“In the updated edition of the document (nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation), aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, is proposed to be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation,” he said at the permanent meeting of the Russian Security Council on nuclear deterrence .
“The conditions for Russia’s transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly recorded. We will consider such a possibility as soon as we receive reliable information about the massive launch of air and space attack vehicles and their crossing of our state border,” said the Russian president, clarifying that we are talking about strategic and tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft .
Putin also says that Moscow reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Russia and Belarus, in particular in the event of using conventional weapons and creating a “critical threat to sovereignty.”
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Kyiv seeks permission from Western partners to strike with their weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation. On the eve of his visit to the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukraine needs “full range capability”, hinting at the need to lift restrictions on the use of Western weapons. He also said that the next week (the week of his visit to the USA) could become “in many ways decisive” in order to stop Russian aggression.
On September 17, The Times wrote that Great Britain “will not act alone” in the matter of granting Ukraine permission to strike targets in Russia with long-range weapons.
The British government believes that American guidance systems are crucial to hitting targets with long-range missiles. London believes the U.S. is likely to authorize the strikes at the UN General Assembly session, which opens on September 10, although President Joe Biden’s administration is divided on this.
On September 16, the spokesman of the US State Department, Matthew Miller, in response to the journalists’ question whether the decision to strike long-range American weapons against targets in Russia had been made, replied that he had “no announcements” about changes in the White House’s policy on this issue.