The Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his nation’s strategic nuclear forces to excessive alert, as the Ukraine crisis escalates.
He told defence chiefs it turned into once resulting from “aggressive statements” by the West, amid frequent condemnation of his invasion of Ukraine. The announcement does no longer imply Russia intends to expend the weapons.
The US without delay condemned his chance calling it an “unacceptable escalation”.
Neutral no longer too lengthy ago Mr Putin had warned that “whoever tries to hinder us” in Ukraine would get out about penalties “you can moreover bear never considered for your history”. These phrases had been broadly interpreted as signalling a chance to expend nuclear weapons if the West stood in his way.
The Russian President ordered his defence minister and the manager of the navy’s total workers to set the nuclear deterrent forces on a “particular regime of combat accountability”.
Clive Myrie in Kyiv gifts BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg in Moscow and Sarah Smith in Washington.
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