The Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his country’s strategic nuclear forces to excessive alert, because the Ukraine disaster escalates.
He rapid defence chiefs it changed into once thanks to “aggressive statements” by the West, amid smartly-liked condemnation of his invasion of Ukraine. The announcement would not mean Russia intends to make use of the weapons.
The US straight condemned his resolution calling it an “unacceptable escalation”.
Currently Mr Putin had warned that “whoever tries to hinder us” in Ukraine would see penalties “you hang gotten under no circumstances viewed for your history”. Those words had been extensively interpreted as signalling a risk to make use of nuclear weapons if the West stood in his manner.
The Russian President ordered his defence minister and the chief of the armed forces’s commonplace personnel to place aside the nuclear deterrent forces on a “particular regime of combat accountability”.
Clive Myrie in Kyiv offers BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg in Moscow and Sarah Smith in Washington.
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