Ukraine fires UK-made Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia for first time – Russia-Ukraine war live
Guardian understands missiles have been used for first time the day after US-made missiles hit Russian targets
In a television interview in France, foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has dismissed Vladimir Putin’s approval of a new nuclear doctrine yesterday as rhetoric, and, Reuters reports, said “We are not intimidated.”
The change in nuclear doctrine yesterday lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons, with a significant development being that Russia says it now considers a nuclear response justified if it is on the receiving end of aggression by a non-nuclear power that is being aided by a nuclear power.
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