INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Moscow.He slammed media speculation that Russia could potentially use nuclear or chemical weapons to compensate for slow progress in its
the battlefield dynamic shifts, Gen
Russian nuclear weapons is to deter a nuclear attack
earlier this month that those circumstances include a strike by a weapon of mass destruction or a conventional weapon attack that
Embassy in Washington on Tuesday accused the United States of increasing the threat of "a direct military clash of nuclear powers" through
"hybrid confrontation" in Ukraine."The United States steps to further engage in a hybrid confrontation with Russia in the context of the
Ukrainian crisis are fraught with unpredictable escalation and a direct military clash of nuclear powers," the Russian mission said in a
statement.President Vladimir Putin put Russia's nuclear forces on high alert days after launching what the Kremlin calls a "special
military operation" in Ukraine, fueling fears that the country could deploy its arsenal there.
