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Will only use nuclear weapons if faced with existential threat: Russia

Name: Will only use nuclear weapons if faced with existential threat: Russia
Uploaded: 2022-03-23T09:04:42.000+05:30
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Description: Russia will use nuclear weapons in the ongoing war with Ukraine only if it faces an 'existential threat,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN International Tuesday. Peskov's comment was in reply to the interviewer questio...

Putin had announced on February 28, just a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, that he has put the country's strategic nuclear forces on high alert.

Updated: Sep 02, 2022 10:53

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Will only use nuclear weapons if faced with existential threat: Russia

Russia will use nuclear weapons in the ongoing war with Ukraine only if it faces an 'existential threat,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told CNN International Tuesday.

Peskov's comment was in reply to the interviewer question on whether he was 'convinced or confident' that President Vladimir Putin would not use the nuclear option in the Ukrainian context.

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Putin had announced on February 28, just a few days after Russia invaded Ukraine, that he has put the country's strategic nuclear forces on high alert.

Russia has the world's largest stockpile of nuclear warheads.

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