Ukraine has confirmed it used US ATACMS rockets to strike inside Russia for the first time just hours after Vladimir Putin approved a new Russian nuclear doctrine.
The dictator’s mouthpiece, Dmitry Peskov, said this morning: ” The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against it with the use of conventional weapons.”
Putin’s decree would allow Russian nuclear weapons to be deployed against a non-nuclear force if it was backed up by a nuclear-armed nation – for example, Ukraine backed by the United States.
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