Dmitry Medvedev said Moscow could strike against an enemy that only used conventional weapons. Photograph: Yekaterina Shtukina/AP
The Guardian: Russia reasserts right to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine
Senior politician Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow’s nuclear doctrine does not require enemy state to use such weapons first
The Kremlin again raised the spectre of the use of nuclear weapons in the war with Ukraine as Russian forces struggled to hold a key city in the south of the country.
Dmitry Medvedev, a former Russian president who is deputy chairman of the country’s security council, said Moscow could strike against an enemy that only used conventional weapons while Vladimir Putin’s defence minister claimed nuclear “readiness” was a priority.
The comments on Saturday prompted Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in an appearance by video link at Qatar’s Doha Forum to warn that Moscow was a direct threat to the world.
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WNU Editor: Too many top Russian officials are talking about nuclear weapons. I do not like where this is heading.
Update: Ukraine crisis is WORSE than the Cold War says Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev as he adds that 'it is obvious' that threat of nuclear war exists (Daily Mail).
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