Russia Threatens to Change Nuclear Policy Over West's Role in Ukraine

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Sunday that Russia would revise its nuclear weapons policy in response to what he sees as a Western escalation in the war in Ukraine, state media reported. According to Moscow's nuclear policy set out in a 2020 decree by President Vladimir Putin, Russia may use nuclear weapons only if it faces a nuclear attack from an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the country. A number of hardline Russian military analysts have urged Putin to lower the threshold for nuclear use in order to “wake up” Russia's enemies in the West. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attends the NPT conference in Beijing with the permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the UK and the US) on January 30, 2019. (Photo: via AP) Putin said in June that nuclear policy was a “living instrument” that was dynamic and could change with world events. On Sunday, Ryabkov made his clearest statement yet, indicating that change was indeed coming. “We are already at an advanced stage in this work, and there is a clear intention to make changes,” Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the state news agency. TASS. He said …

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