Putin signs new doctrine lowering threshold for nuclear weapon use

The Kremlin says that the use of Western non-nuclear missiles by Ukraine against Russia could warrant a nuclear response.

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00:00Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine lowering the threshold

00:07for the use of nuclear weapons.

00:10The document declared that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported

00:14by nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country.

00:19The news follows U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside

00:24Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles.

00:29Putin's endorsement of the new nuclear deterrent policy comes on the 1,000th day after he sent

00:34troops into Ukraine in a full-scale invasion of the country in February of 2022.

00:40The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could

00:45trigger a nuclear response, reflects Putin's readiness to threaten use of the country's

00:50nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive

00:56in Ukraine.