Deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has said that a defeat for Russia in Ukraine could provoke a nuclear war.
“The defeat of a nuclear power in a conventional war may trigger a nuclear war,” Medvedev, wrote on Telegram.
“Nuclear powers have never lost major conflicts on which their fate depends,” said Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012.
Moscow’s doctrine allows for a nuclear attack after “aggression against the Russian Federation with conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened”.
Russia has said that a defeat for Russia in Ukraine could provoke a nuclear war
1/20/2023
