Russia is in the process of adjusting their nuclear doctrine (Picture: EPA)
The Kremlin has continued to ramp up its threats against the West – going as far to adjust its nuclear doctrine, days after President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.
Now, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has told reporters that the use of these Western-made non-nuclear missiles by Ukraine could lead to a ‘nuclear response’ under new nuclear rules in Russia.
In September, Vladimir Putin warned that any nuclear power supporting another country’s attack on Russia would be considered a participant in the aggression – a thinly veiled threat to Western countries.
This proposed amendment to Russia’s nuclear doctrine has not been legally cemented yet, Mr Peskov said, but will be ‘as necessary’.
Other changes to Russia’s nuclear weapons doctrine will see the country view aggression also from a non-nuclear state – if done with support from nuclear states – as a ‘joint attack’.
‘A massive launch of strategic and tactical planes, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aerial vehicles and their violation of the Russian border will become grounds for the use of nuclear weapons,’ Tass reported.
Dmitry Peskov (left) works closely with Putin (Picture: Getty)
The move to allow Ukraine to use Western-made missiles against Russia has stoked the ire of the Kremlin and Russian state television, who went on to make open threats of nuclear attack on Britain and the US.
Another senior propagandist – Putin’s TV mouthpiece Dmitry Kiselyov – said US, British and French military officers would do the actual targeting of the missiles, which brought them into the war.
He asked: ‘How will Russia respond? The answer could be anything. Anything. It is not for nothing that our nuclear doctrine has been adjusted.
‘As President Putin has repeatedly emphasised, missile strikes deep into Russian territory will change the nature of the conflict. Its very essence will become a radical escalation.’
Russia is taking the west’s decision to allow Ukraine to use the missiles very seriously (Picture: AP)
Another pro-Putin propagandist, Andrey Gurulev, reservist Russian army general, and hardline MP, warned of a full-scale nuclear strike on Britain to show the dictator’s intent.
He said: ‘There are individual targets that can be hit with….demonstrative warning strikes. The first candidate to get a nuclear bludgeon….is the UK.’
Andrey said he did not expect retaliation strikes since the West was ‘scared’ of Putin’s hypersonic nuclear arsenal.
He added if anyone has the ‘urge to launch ATACMS, SCALP, Storm Shadow missiles….there will be essentially nothing left of America trying to pull us into escalation.’
The move by the US to allow Ukraine to use long-distance missiles sparked a massive attack across Ukraine after it was announced.
One strike on a nine-story building in the city of Sumy, northern Ukraine, killed eight people and wounded dozens.
Rescuers were working across Ukraine, checking every apartment in search of people who could remain in damaged buildings.
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