Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:31am on 20 Nov 2024,Wednesday International
Russian President Vladimir Putin has updated Moscow's nuclear doctrine, broadening the scope for nuclear deployment against non-nuclear nations supported by nuclear powers. The decree, signed after Ukraine's first US-made ATACMS missile strike on Russia's Bryansk region, marks a significant escalation. Moscow condemned the strike as a "new phase of the Western war." Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned of "appropriate reactions," urging the West to heed the updated doctrine. Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Russia's "red lines," with the advanced missiles placing hundreds of key Russian military assets within Kyiv's range, according to the Institute for the Study of War.
