VLAD GOES NUCLEAR
Putin allows NUCLEAR response to long-range US missiles being fired at Russia as he signs off on drastic WW3 escalation
Britain and France's own long-range rockets could soon come into play
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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Putin'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 in an updated doctrine.
Reports later surfaced that Ukraine had fired at least six ATACMS missiles inside Russia - striking an ammo depot in Bryansk.
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Russia was forced to admit to the crushing defeat - claiming to have shot down five of the rockets.
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 sent over ten thousand soldiers to allied Russia to help Putin take back land in Kursk - infiltrated by Ukraine in August.
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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.
Peskov said the new policy "concerns the fact that the Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression with the use of conventional weapons against it".
When asked if the new policy means Russia views long-range missile firing as an attack by a non-nuclear state (Ukraine) with the support of a nuclear state (US) - and provokes the possibility of Russia using nukes in response - Peskov said "Yes, that is what is being discussed".
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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."
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As the world marks 1,00 days of war in Ukraine on Tuesday, 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.
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"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.”
How Ukraine could turn war around in WEEKS using US missiles
EXCLUSIVE by Sayan Bose, Foreign News Reporter, and Georgie English, Foreign News Reporter
Today marks 1,000 days of Vlad's gruelling war in Ukraine that has left more than a million soldiers and civilians dead or wounded.
Putin's forces invaded their neighbouring nation in February 2022 as part of the deluded tyrant's plan to rebuild the Soviet Union amid his paranoid fears over Nato.
Almost three years later, Kyiv's battle-weary troops are fighting to the death on multiple fronts.
They have faced several setbacks in the grinding conflict as Russia has made slow but incremental gains over Ukrainian territory.
But the green light from the US that now allows Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles could be a game changer, an expert has said.
Colonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told The Sun how Ukraine could turn the war around in six weeks when provided with unwavering support from key allies in the West.
The former British army officer said Washington's decision to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS - and the prospect of Britain's Storm Shadow missiles joining the war effort - is a "significant development".
He explained: "Since day one Putin and his close aides have been threatening a nuclear strike if we escalate it, and today is the 1,000th day of this conflict, and it hasn't happened.
"It should embolden our leaders, who must now realise that Putin's threats are completely hollow.
"With the Russian boxer on the ropes, now is the time that we enable the Ukrainians to absolutely put in the killer punch and be in a really good position for the expected ceasefire."
He added: "The fact that the Russians have been so vehement in their verbal attacks against the use of Nato missiles shows that this is a significant step.
"It could allow Ukraine to gain a good position in [the next] six weeks which will be important for Zelensky if Trump forces a ceasefire after getting back in office."
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