Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved an updated nuclear doctrine, saying that Russia could consider using nuclear weapons if it was subject to a conventional missile assault on it supported by a nuclear power, Reuters reported.The decision to change Russia'sofficial nuclear doctrine is the Kremlin'sanswer to a reported decision by the administration of U.S.
President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to fire American long-range missiles deep into Russia.The updated doctrine, which outlines the threats which would make Russia'sleadership consider a nuclear strike, said an attack with conventional missiles, drones or other aircraft could be considered to meet these criteria.It also said any aggression against Russia by a state which was a member of a coalition would be considered by Moscow to be aggression against it by the whole coalition, read the report.Just weeks before the November U.S.
presidential elections, [USN:L8N3L71Q3 TEXT:&Putin ordered&] changes to the nuclear doctrine to say that any conventional attack on Russia aided by a nuclear power could be considered to be a joint attack on Russia.The 2-1/2-year-old Ukraine war has triggered the gravest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis & considered to be the closest the two Cold War superpowers came to intentional nuclear war.The post Putin issues warning to US with new nuclear doctrine first appeared on Ariana News.