INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia&s security policy dictates that the country would only use nuclear weapons if its very existence were threatened, Kremlin spokesman
Dmitry Peskov told CNN in an interview on Tuesday.The comment, nearly four weeks after Russia sent its forces into Ukraine, came amid
Western concern that the conflict there could escalate into a nuclear war, Reuters reported.Peskov made the comment in an English-language
interview when asked whether he was confident President Vladimir Putin would not use nuclear weapons.We have a concept of domestic security
and it&s public, you can read all the reasons for nuclear arms to be used
So if it is an existential threat for our country, then it (the nuclear arsenal) can be used in accordance with our concept,& he said.There
are no other reasons that were mentioned in that text,& he said in a further reference to the country&s security concept, read the Putin
last month ordered Russia&s nuclear forces to be put on high alert
In line with the order, Russia&s defence ministry said on Feb
28 that its nuclear missile forces and Northern and Pacific fleets had been placed on enhanced combat duty, the Interfax news agency
reported.United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on March 14: &The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now
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