President Vladimir Putin will chair a meeting of Russia’s Security Council on nuclear deterrence today, the Kremlin said, as Moscow considers how to respond to Ukraine’s requests to Western countries to allow it to strike deep into Russian territory with Western missiles. long range.
The war that broke out in Ukraine 2.5 years ago has sparked the worst standoff between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — seen as the moment when the two Cold War superpowers came closest. closer than ever to a deliberate nuclear war.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described today’s meeting as an important event.
“There will be a speech from the president. The rest, for obvious reasons, will be classified as ‘top secret,’” Peskov told reporters.
Russia has said it is reviewing its nuclear doctrine, which defines the circumstances under which it can resort to using nuclear weapons.
Russia will not test a nuclear weapon as long as the United States refrains from testing, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Monday, following speculation that the Kremlin may abandon its post-Soviet moratorium on nuclear tests.
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