Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear warning to the West in the event of a massive air attack on Russia, and said that Moscow could consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack. President Putin’s remarks came after his urgent meeting with Moscow’s top security council to discuss Russia’s nuclear deterrence.
The decision to change Russia’s official nuclear doctrine is the Kremline’s answer to deliberations in the US and the Britain about whether to permit Ukraine to fire conventional Western missiles into Russia.
“It is proposed that aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation,” Putin said.
“Radiation does not respect state borders,” Zelensky said Wednesday in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Since Russia “can’t defeat our people’s resistance on the battlefield,” Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “looking for other ways to break the Ukrainian spirit.” Zelensky’s address to the UN came shortly before he is set to discuss his “victory plan” with United States President Joe Biden, which is expected to include Kyiv’s long-stated request to use long-range missiles to strike military targets inside Russia.
In his speech Zelensky recalled the “horrifying” moment in the first weeks of the war when Russian attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), the largest in Europe, stirred fears among Ukrainians of another Chernobyl-style disaster.
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