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Russia's Putin lowers threshold for use of its nuclear weapons

Russia's Putin lowers threshold for use of its nuclear weapons

The threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons was formally lowered by President Vladimir Putin today.

This followed a decision by US President Joe Biden to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with longer-range missiles supplied by Washington.

The updated doctrine says an attack against Russia by a non-nuclear-armed power with the “participation or support of a nuclear power” will be seen as their “joint attack on the Russian Federation.”

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