Ukraine has confirmed it used US ATACMS rockets to strike inside Russia for the first time just hours after Vladimir Putin approved a new Russian nuclear doctrine.
The dictator’s mouthpiece, Dmitry Peskov, said this morning: ” The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against it with the use of conventional weapons.”
Putin’s decree would allow Russian nuclear weapons to be deployed against a non-nuclear force if it was backed up by a nuclear-armed nation – for example, Ukraine backed by the United States.
A respected Ukrainian news outlet citing a source in the country’s army general staff said this happened overnight with a missile strike on a Russian ammunition arsenal in Bryansk region
Ukraine 24 channel carried a report saying “Ukraine strikes Russia with ATACMS – a warehouse in Bryansk region was attacked”.
But the general staff did not confirm this version on the record.
News outlet RBC-Ukraine also reported: “The Ukrainian Defence Forces have struck Russian territory with ATACMS ballistic missiles for the first time. The target was successfully hit.”
It cited an “informed source in the Defence Forces”.
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