The Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his nation’s strategic nuclear forces to excessive alert, because the Ukraine crisis escalates.
He suggested defence chiefs it modified into once on myth of “aggressive statements” by the West, amid smartly-liked condemnation of his invasion of Ukraine. The announcement would not mean Russia intends to utilize the weapons.
The US at once condemned his decision calling it an “unacceptable escalation”.
Recently Mr Putin had warned that “whoever tries to hinder us” in Ukraine would behold consequences “that you would possibly perhaps well also just agree with below no circumstances seen to your history”. Those phrases had been broadly interpreted as signalling a possibility to utilize nuclear weapons if the West stood in his manner.
The Russian President ordered his defence minister and the chief of the militia’s overall team to build apart the nuclear deterrent forces on a “particular regime of strive in opposition to responsibility”.
Clive Myrie in Kyiv offers BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg in Moscow and Sarah Smith in Washington.
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