Erdoğan urges NATO to address Russia's nuclear policy shift

We have a special secure line for communication between the two presidents, Russia and the United States,

Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency

These developments are far from positive, ... Russia's statement seems to be a precautionary move against conventional threats aimed at it."

he remarked, explaining

Russia possesses the capability and measures to defend itself. Being a NATO country, we too have the duty to protect ourselves and take necessary actions."

He further stated

Since the outbreak of the conflict, Türkiye has been willing and capable of playing a facilitative role,

he stated

There is no positive aspect to conflicts involving nuclear arms. NATO officials must consider Russia's actions and reassess them,

he said

They've been signalling that they intend to update [the Russian nuclear doctrine] over the last several weeks. It's the same irresponsible rhetoric that we've seen before and that we've seen frankly for the past two years. So, it's something that we're going to continue to monitor. But we don't have any indications that Russia is preparing to use a nuclear weapon within Ukraine. And we don't see any changes that need to be made to our own nuclear posture as well."

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This is more of the same irresponsible rhetoric from Russia, which we have seen for the past two years,

a spokesperson for the US National Security Council told AFP

[Putin] has issued so many red lines that the latest change almost sounds like a desperate cry for attention,

wrote Hans Kristensen of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists

This is how nuclear deterrence works,

Podvig told The Moscow Times

If it comes to using nuclear weapons, no one will recall any doctrine. Putin will not ask for what the doctrine allows and what it doesn’t. Any commanders who would get the orders will not doubt them and will rush to execute,

he said

In such a scenario, Russia reserves the right to retaliate with weapons of mass destruction against Kyiv and key NATO facilities, wherever they may be located,

he said

Put simply, Peskov openly admits that the Kremlin is currently considering the possibility of a nuclear strike,

she said

As we said earlier this month, we were not surprised by Russia’s announcement that it would update its nuclear doctrine; Russia had been signaling its intent to update its doctrine for several weeks,

the White House National Security Council told Reuters in a statement

Many of the best targets – helicopters and glide-bomb armed aircraft attacking Ukrainian cities and troops in the north or in Kursk have largely moved to airbases outside the range of ATACMS

Matthew Savill, the Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, said of Ukraine's ATACMS attacks

Nuclear deterrence is aimed at ensuring that a potential adversary understands the inevitability of retaliation in the event of aggression against the Russian Federation and/or its allies,

Peskov said

The big picture is that Russia is lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a possible conventional attack,

said Alexander Graef, a senior researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg

Now the danger of a direct armed clash between nuclear powers cannot be underestimated, what is happening has no analogues in the past, we are moving through unexplored military and political territory,

said Sergei Ryabkov, Russia's deputy foreign minister overseeing arms control and US relations