The weapons are meant for deterrence, so it makes no military sense to use them in Ukraine, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said
There are no targets in Ukraine that warrant a Russian nuclear strike, so all claims that Russia could use nuclear weapons in its military operation are absurd, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said during a security conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
“The use [of nuclear weapons] is restricted to emergencies only, as outlined in Russian guidelines that are publicly available,” he added, noting that the weapons are meant as a deterrence against foreign aggression.
Shoigu said that “claims of possible use of chemical weapons in Ukraine are absurd too,” since Russia destroyed its stockpile in an effort that was completed in 2017. False accusations of such attacks have been used by Western-backed groups in Syria in the past, he added.
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