Russia stays in a state of fight readiness and is absolutely prepared for a nuclear warfare, however not “all the pieces is speeding to it” at current, President Vladimir Putin mentioned in remarks revealed on Wednesday.
In an interview with state media, Putin, who launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and is almost sure to win the March 15 to 17 presidential election, mentioned Russia can be prepared to make use of nuclear weapons if its sovereignty was threatened.
“From a military-technical standpoint, we’re, in fact, prepared,” Putin informed Rossiya-1 tv and information company RIA in response to a query about whether or not the nation was actually prepared for a nuclear warfare.
He mentioned the USA understands that if it deploys American troops on Russian territory – or to Ukraine – Russia would deal with the transfer as an intervention.
“[In the United States] there are sufficient specialists within the subject of Russian-American relations and within the subject of strategic restraint,” Putin mentioned.
“Subsequently, I don’t suppose that right here all the pieces is speeding to it [nuclear confrontation], however we’re prepared for this.”
The Kremlin’s nuclear doctrine
He reiterated that using nuclear weapons was spelled out within the Kremlin’s nuclear doctrine, its coverage setting out the circumstances by which Russia would possibly use its weapons.
“Weapons exist in an effort to use them,” Putin mentioned. “We have now our personal rules.” If the USA carried out nuclear exams, Russia would possibly do the identical, he added within the wide-ranging interview. “It is not vital … we nonetheless want to consider it, however I do not rule out that we are able to do the identical.”
Nonetheless, Putin mentioned Russia had by no means confronted a necessity to make use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, the place the battle has raged since February 2022.
“Why do we have to use weapons of mass destruction? There has by no means been such a necessity.”
