The situation around the “special military operation” in Ukraine showed that it is necessary to make conceptual additions and adjustments to the nuclear doctrine. This was stated by the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov in an interview with the magazine “International Life.
“There is a military doctrine, and a nuclear element is spelled out in detail. There is a document called” Fundamentals of state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence “, where the nuclear component of the military doctrine is described in more detail, objectively and in reference to some situations,” noted He.
According to the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the situation around the “special military operation” showed that “nuclear deterrence in its former classical sense does not fully work.” “We need some conceptual additions and adjustments. That is why the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin) said that the doctrine is a” live instrument “. I fully admit that after some time a certain specificization of what approaches can be taken Our part to these extremely important and very responsible stories in situations of further escalation on the part of our opponents, ”said the diplomat.