{"id":25551,"date":"2024-11-20T05:37:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=25551"},"modified":"2024-11-20T05:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:45:40","slug":"as-american-missiles-hit-russia-putin-broadens-scope-for-the-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/11\/as-american-missiles-hit-russia-putin-broadens-scope-for-the-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"As American missiles hit Russia, Putin broadens scope for the nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) – Russia confirmed that it had been hit with long-range missiles overnight just one day after Washington gave the go-ahead for American ATACMS to be used.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ukraine used controversial missiles in a strike on Russia\u2019s Bryansk region on Tuesday morning local time, the Russian ministry of defence in Moscow said.<\/p>\n

Russia said they had shot down five missiles and damaged one more.<\/p>\n

The attack comes after Vladimir Putin signed a decree broadening the scope for when Moscow will consider using nuclear weapons in the clear warning to the West and Ukraine, reported wires.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin says the move, which enables Russia to use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state if they are supported by nuclear powers, was \u201cnecessary to bring our principles in line with the current situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Putin\u2019s nuclear move came after the Biden administration gave Kyiv permission to use ATACMS.<\/p>\n

Ukraine said Tuesday that its forces would never surrender to Russia, 1,000 days after Moscow launched its brutal invasion, while the Kremlin also pledged victory and escalated its nuclear sabre-rattling.<\/p>\n

The grim anniversary opened with an overnight Russian strike in the eastern Ukrainian region of Sumy that gutted a Soviet-era resident building and killed at least nine people, including a child.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky published images of rescue workers hauling bodies from the debris and called on Kyiv\u2019s allies to \u201cforce\u201d the Kremlin into peace.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian forces have steadily been losing ground in the Kursk region and have warned that Russia has amassed a force of some 50,000 troops, including North Korean forces, to wrest back the region.<\/p>\n

The anniversary of Russia\u2019s invasion — launched on February 24, 2022 — comes at a perilous time for Ukrainian forces across the front, particularly near the war-battered cities of Kupiansk and Pokrovsk.<\/p>\n

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