Source: Semafor
“Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for Moscow’s deployment of nuclear weapons on Tuesday, seemingly in response to the US loosening restrictions on Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons to strike deep inside Russian territory. Separately, Russia also claimed that Ukraine had fired six US-supplied long-range missiles at a military facility in the Bryansk border region, Russian state media reported, in what would be the first such attack since Washington announced a policy shift. Russia will now regard any attack by a non-nuclear country supported by a nuclear power as a joint attack, and ‘reserves the right to consider a nuclear response,’ the Russian state news agency TASS reported.” (11/19/24)