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VLADIMIR Putin has given the green light to a fresh nuke doctrine – threatening to use nuclear weapons against the West if Ukraine fires long-range missiles on Russian soil.
The deluded tyrant was left raging when US President Joe Biden finally approved use of the far-reaching rockets by Ukraine after 1,000 days of war.
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The US approved use of ACTAMS missiles by Ukraine (pictured)
US President Biden pictured with Ukrainian premier ZelenskyPutin’s snarling propaganda mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov swore on Tuesday that the use of Western non-nuclear missiles by Ukraine’s armies could spark a nuclear response.
Russia has issued countless similar threats in the past – invoking fears of possible nuclear escalation in the West.
But now the stakes have been kicked up a notch – with the Kremlin officially putting a nuclear retaliation on the table.
The US on Sunday approved a decision that allows Ukraine to fire some American ATACMS rockets inside Russia.
It followed “one of the largest” air attacks of the Ukraine war so far with 120 missiles and 90 drones fired by Russia.
North Korea also recently send thousands of soldiers to allied Russia to help Putin take back land in Kursk – infiltrated by Ukraine in August.
The first deep strikes are likely to be carried out using the American ATACMS rockets, which have a range of up to 190 miles.
It puts into play Britain’s Storm Shadow and France’s SCALP missiles – ramping up pressure for Ukraine’s other Western allies to follow the US lead.
Russia is claiming the move has crossed a red line – marking a sign of war from the West as they move to support embattled Ukraine.
Andrey Gurulev, reservist Russian army general, MP and pro-Putin TV propagandist, warned of a full-scale nuclear strike on Britain.
“There are individual targets that can be hit with….demonstrative warning strikes,” he said.
“The first candidate to get a nuclear bludgeon….is the UK.”
He also declared “if anyone has the urge to launch ATACMS, SCALP, Storm Shadow missiles….there will be essentially nothing left of America trying to pull us into escalation.”
As the world marked 1,00 days of war in Ukraine, Putin’s puppet Vasily Nebenzya told the Security Council the use of Western missiles in Russia amounted to “suicidal strikes”.
He urged a rethink from Britain and France.
“Perhaps Joe Biden himself, for many reasons, has nothing to lose,” he said.
“But the short-sightedness of the British and French leadership, which are rushing to play along with the outgoing administration and dragging not only their countries but the whole of Europe into a full-scale escalation with extremely serious consequences, is striking.
“This is exactly what our former Western partners should think about before it is too late.”
Another senior propagandist – Putin’s TV mouthpiece Dmitry Kiselyov – said US, British and French military officers would do the actual targeting of the missiles, which brought them into the war.
He asked: “How will Russia respond? The answer could be anything. Anything.
“It is not for nothing that our nuclear doctrine has been adjusted.
“As President Putin has repeatedly emphasised, missile strikes deep into Russian territory will change the nature of the conflict.
“Its very essence will become a radical escalation.
“After all, the United States, Britain and France will be directly at war with Russia, with all the consequences that entails.
“For their own territories and those who inhabit these territories.
“As for the inhabitants of Ukraine, who live in the neighbourhood of airfields where F-16s are based, they better move far away from them.”
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