President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has made changes to Russia's nuclear deterrence doctrine. Source: Putin's statement at the Security Council meeting; Latvia-based Russian media outlet Meduza Details: Putin drew attention to the fact that the "updated version of the document proposes to consider aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state,

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy meet at Trump Tower in New York City, U.S., September 27, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy,

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia is changing its doctrine that lays out the use of nuclear weapons in view of the sky-high tensions with Western powers. The updated doctrine takes aim at nuclear powers such as the United States,

By Mark Galeotti director of consultancy Mayak Intelligence and honorary professor at UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies Vladimir Putin is at it again, playing on Western nerves with talk of modifications to Russia's nuclear doctrine to open up more options for their use.

In recent months, Vladimir Putin and his proxies have been foreshadowing a change in Russias nuclear doctrine. This is the set of rules that spells out when and how his country might resort to the use of its

Top diplomat Sergey Lavrov’s fiery UN speech comes just days after Putin aired a shift in the country’s nuclear doctrine.