putin approved the new nuclear doctrine of the russian federation. approval document (for those who are interested in what russian presidential decrees look like):   points of doctrine: - the basic principle of the doctrine is that nuclear weapons are a last resort to protect the country's sovereignty. at the same time, due to the emergence of new military threats and risks, russia needed to clarify the parameters allowing the use of nuclear weapons.  - in particular, the category of states and military alliances subject to nuclear deterrence has been expanded.  - the list of military threats that require such actions to neutralize has been supplemented.  - aggression by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear country, will be considered their joint attack on the russian federation.  - in addition, a nuclear response from russia is possible in case of a critical threat to its sovereignty even with conventional weapons, an attack on belarus as a member of the union state, a massive launch of military aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, other aircraft and their crossing of the russian border.  - the previous version of the russian nuclear doctrine was approved in june 2020. it replaced a similar document adopted 10 years earlier.
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