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This includes strategic and tactical aircraft, as well as cruise missiles and drones, hypersonic and other delivery vehicles. Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in case of aggression, including if the enemy using conventional weapons poses a critical threat."
In September, Putin lowered the threshold of nuclear weapon use by saying We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities. And in case of escalation of aggressive actions, we will respond resolutely in a mirror way."
After discussing Ukraine's attack on Russia using U.S.-made ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System), Putin said I don't think that the possibility that they would use a nuclear weapon in that way is much greater than it has been and it's always been small for several reasons. First and most obvious is that it's difficult to see what they would hope to accomplish through the use of a nuclear weapon. They're able to hit targets throughout Ukraine and cause widespread destruction and lots of civilian casualties."
Regarding a possible launch of nuclear weapons by Russia on Ukraine, he said Nevertheless, the doctrine still states that Russia regards the use of nuclear weapons as an extreme measure only to be used against critical threats to the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the union state. While this doctrine shift lowers the threshold for nuclear use, the actual likelihood of nuclear weapons employment is low."
It's very clear. They've been running the same playbook for over two years. They're going to continue to escalate the threats, they're going to continue to see what creates an impression and if it's the use of a so-called hypersonic weapon, then they will continue to do that."
Regarding Russia's next steps, if they do not contain launching nuclear weapons, Erath said American politicians and journalists are seriously discussing the consequences of transferring nuclear weapons to Kyiv. It seems that my sad joke about crazy, senile Biden, who decided to leave this life gracefully, taking a significant part of humanity with him, is turning into a frightening reality."
We are not planning to equip Ukraine with nuclear weapons,
the White House told Newsweek on Tuesday There's nothing really new about the weapon that the Russians may have used. They have highly capable long range ballistic missiles and have had them for years. This one [the Oreshnisk missile used on Dnipro] might in some ways be a little better or it might not. We don't know. It's experimental. But they it was intended to send a message that they are prepared to use new weapons, and that the war is not winnable for Ukraine. That's the impression they want to create."
Russia's new nuclear doctrine is unlikely to prompt a meaningful change in the way that the United States approaches the conflict,
In this case, (the missile) was without explosives...There were no types of explosions like we expected. There was something, but it was not huge."
I would say this is an incredibly expensive way to deliver what is probably not that much destruction,
said Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in California Obviously, we did change the guidance and gave them guidance that they could use them … to strike these particular types of targets,
Kirby said, but provided no further details Three missiles were destroyed, while two hit the target,
the Russian defense ministry told Ria Novosti on Tuesday Right now, they are able to use ATACMS to defend themselves, you know, in an immediate-need basis … understandably, that’s taking place in and around Kursk,
White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby said at a briefing Monday [The ... The] Ukrainian Army carried out a group strike on the positions of the anti-aircraft missile division 1490 … of the Russian Federation in Kursk region. A successful hit was recorded on the radar station of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system,
Kyiv’s General Staff said in a statement Monday [The ... The] S-400 unit conducted combat operations in the “ground-to-ground” mode, i.e. hitting stationary ground targets, mostly civilian objects and peaceful residents of settlements in the front-line regions of Ukraine,
The very threat of transferring nuclear weapons to the Kyiv regime can be considered preparation for nuclear conflict with Russia,
The actual transfer of such weapons can be equated to an act of attack on our country under article 19 of the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence,
In the decisive moments - and they are coming next year - we must not allow anyone in the world to doubt the resilience of our entire state
the Ukrainian president told Parliament in a rousing address today I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun.
Valery Zaluzhny, who is now Ukraine's envoy to the United Kingdom, told the UP100 award ceremony in Kyiv
