MOSCOW, November 19th. /tass/.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree approving the updated nuclear doctrine, the basis of state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence. The relevant document has been published.

The basic principle of the doctrine is that nuclear weapons are an extreme measure to protect a country’s sovereignty. At the same time, due to the emergence of new military threats and risks, Russia needed to clarify the parameters allowing the use of nuclear weapons.

In particular, the category of States and military alliances subject to nuclear deterrence has been expanded. The list of military threats that such actions are needed to neutralize has been expanded.

Aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or with the support of a nuclear country, will be considered their joint attack on the Russian Federation. In addition, a nuclear response from Russia is possible with a critical threat to its sovereignty, even with conventional weapons, with an attack on Belarus as a member of the Union State, with a massive launch of military aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, and other aircraft and their crossing of the Russian border.

The previous version of the Russian nuclear doctrine was approved in June 2020. It replaced a similar document adopted 10 years earlier.

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