Vladimir Putin has signed a new doctrine that lowers the threshold for using nuclear weapons. This comes in the wake of President Biden giving the go-ahead for Ukraine to use US-made long-range missiles on targets beyond its borders for the first time.
The new doctine, according to reports, states that the Kremlin could consider launching an atomic strike if Russia was hit by a conventional missile assault by a state being supported by a nuclear power.
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