On Sunday, Mr. Medvedev said in a message on his official social media accounts that Russia would be forced to fall back on its own nuclear weapons doctrine if such a scenario unfolds. He didn’t elaborate.
“There would simply be no other way out” of using nuclear weapons if Ukraine’s offensive is a success and took some Russian territory, said Mr. Medvedev on Twitter and elsewhere. “Just imagine that the NATO-supported [Ukraine’s] offensive turned out successful, and they took away a part of our land: then we would have to, following the President’s degree (sic) of 02.06.2020, use the nuclear weapon,” he wrote.
Mr. Medvedev added that it’s why “our enemies must worship our warriors” because, according to the Kremlin, “they are […]
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