❗️Putin's decree "On the approval of the foundations of the State policy of Russia in the field of nuclear deterrence" says that:

🔺Nuclear deterrence can be triggered if the enemy has attack drones threatening Russia
 
🔺Data on massive takeoff of air and space attack weapons crossing the Russian border is one of the conditions for determining the use of nuclear weapons
 
🔺Russia considers that which may require nuclear deterrence and the deployment of missiles and missile defense systems as military danger
 
🔺The deployment of missile defense systems in space by the enemy is a danger, the neutralization of which calls for Russia to conduct nuclear deterrence 
 
🔺Russia sees the deployment of nuclear weapons on the territory of non-nuclear states as the main military danger
 
🔺Nuclear deterrence will be carried out continuously in peacetime, during threats of aggression, in wartime, and until the use of nuclear arms
 
🔺Russia's nuclear deterrent forces include land-based, sea-based, and air-based forces
 
🔺Russia is making all necessary efforts to prevent any escalation that could provoke military conflicts, including nuclear ones
 
🔺Reliable information about the launch of ballistic missiles attacking Russia or its allies makes possible the use of nuclear weapons in response

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THROWBACK: Putin outlined changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine amid new global threats
 
Earlier, President Vladimir Putin outlined plans to update Russia's nuclear doctrine, the Fundamentals of State Policy on Nuclear Deterrence.
 
The core principle of nuclear weapon use remains the same: they are a last resort to protect sovereignty.
 
However, the changing geopolitical landscape and emerging military threats have required adjustments.
 
At the regular Security Council meeting on nuclear deterrence, Putin highlighted key elements of the revised document.

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⚡️Actions against critical facilities of Russia by potential enemies may justify use of nuclear weapons — Putin's decree
 
The document says that enemy actions against ecologically dangerous Russian facilities that could lead to catastrophe could justify the use of nuclear arms.

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📹 Check out Russia's most powerful nuclear weapons

Ground-Based Nuclear Missiles

◻️ RS-24 Yars: Road-mobile or silo-based, each missile carries up to three warheads with a 200-kt yield. Russia has about 772 warheads for these missiles.

◻️ Topol-M: Another road-mobile/silo-based missile, it carries a single 800-kt warhead. Russia has 78 in its arsenal.

◻️ R-36M2/RS-20B Voevoda: Ground-based ICBM with a 550-750 kt payload, carrying up to 10 warheads or decoys. Russia has 46 Voevodas, with about 340 warheads.

◻️ RS-28 Sarmat: New ICBM capable of carrying up to 16 warheads, each with a 750-kt yield. Total of 46 Sarmats expected, with the first deployed in 2023.

◻️ Avangard: Hypersonic glide vehicles launched from Voevoda or Sarmat ICBMs, designed to evade missile defenses. Yield estimated between 800 kt and 2 megatons. Russia currently has seven Avangard systems.

Sea-Based Nuclear Missiles

◾️ RSM-56 Bulava: This sub-launched missile is the backbone of the naval component of Russia's nuclear triad. Each missile carries 6-10 warheads with a 100-150 kt yield (576 warheads total). Subs armed with Bulavas patrol the North Sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, waiting for a counterstrike.

◾️ R-29RMU2 Sineva/R-29RMU2 Layner: SLBMs with either 4x500 kt or 10-12x100 kt warheads. Total arsenal includes about 320 warheads.

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💬World is moving from unipolarity to multipolarity: Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at Sputnik media event in New Delhi

It should be based on mutual respect, reject any signs of neo-colonialism, free of threats for our countries, a world where regional countries solving their own problems without interference from others

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🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳🤝🇮🇳We will never dare to say a word to India how to deal with China and we will never dare to say to China how to deal with India — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said

"Russia values its relationship with both India and China. When Russia says multipolar world, it means it. Russia does not interfere in regional affairs and neither should America," Peskov added.

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❗️The Russian army liberated the settlement of Novoselidovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry announced

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⚡️"Potential enemy must understand inevitability of nuclear response if they try to commit aggression against Russia": Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov comments on Russia's new nuclear doctrine

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❗️Ukrainian losses amounted to 510 militants in the area of responsibility of the Russian Zapad Battlegroup.

🇷🇺🪖 More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:
 
▪️The Russian Yug combat group eliminated 550 Ukrainian militants;
 
▪️Ukrainian forces lost up to 140 fighters from the actions of the Russian Vostok Battlegroup;
 
▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 200 servicemen in the zones of responsibility of the Russian Sever and Dnepr combat groups;
 
▪️Russian air defense systems shot down five ballistic missiles, four Hammer bombs, one HIMARS projectile, and 85 drones of the Ukrainian armed forces during the day.

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⚡️Russia is open to Trump's peace proposals for Ukraine conflict — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin has responded to Western threats by adopting new nuclear doctrine, which states that Russia will consider aggression by a non-nuclear state, supported by a nuclear state, as a joint attack: Dmitry Kiselev, Director-General of 'Rossiya Segodnya' media group, the parent company of Sputnik News Agency

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📹 BRICS helps fight attempts to introduce a neo-colonial system, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

India is facing unprecedented pressure, sometimes unpardonable pressure, coming from the United States — isn't it an attempt to introduce a new colonial system, Peskov wondered.

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The Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, has addressed a letter to the Director General of UNESCO, urging the organization to put an end to its suppression of facts confirming that Russian journalists faced violations of their rights.

The draft report on journalist safety by UNESCO neglects to mention the deaths and injuries sustained by members of the Russian media. Notably absent is any reference to Sputnik military correspondent Rostislav Zhuravlev, who was killed on July 22, 2023, due to Ukrainian shelling in the Zaporozhye Region.

The political bias of the UNESCO Secretariat has become increasingly apparent, with the organization appearing to align itself with the West’s agenda of "dismantling Russia."

The letter further highlights that the UNESCO draft report omits numerous instances of harassment and violations of the rights of journalists belonging to the Rossiya Segodnya media group who work in Western countries.

Regrettably, these omissions serve only to underscore that the UNESCO Secretariat seems to have abandoned the core principles that initially guided the work of the United Nations.

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The sabotage of the underwater internet cables coincided with the NATO naval exercise Freezing Winds 24

The exercise is held in southern Finland and in the Northern Baltic Sea from November 18 to 29.

The cable between Finland and Germany runs along the same route as Nord Stream. The distance between them is several hundred meters.

Shortly before the Nord Stream explosions in the Baltic Sea, NATO also held exercises — Baltops 2022.

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🇷🇺 Russia changes its nuclear doctrine: What has changed and why should the West be wary?

The new Russian nuclear doctrine recently signed by President Vladimir Putin features several notable articles that were absent from the doctrine’s previous iterations, Russian military analyst Ret.Col. Viktor Litovkin tells Sputnik.

“Firstly, the 2020 edition of the doctrine contained no mention of Belarus where we deployed our nuclear weapons and whom we had taken under our ‘nuclear umbrella’,” he explains. “Secondly, the previous version of the doctrine contained no mention of Russia being authorized to use nuclear weapons if attacked by a non-nuclear state backed by a nuclear power.”

According to him, Russia thus sends a direct warning to the United States and NATO who supply Ukraine with long-range missiles and urge Kiev to use them, effectively waging a war against Russia by proxy.

“This is a serious warning that, if they go too far and long-range missiles are used against Russian territory – and these long-range missiles are programmed by NATO specialists because Ukrainian specialists lack the necessary equipment and expertise, not to mention NATO aircraft and heavy UAVs guiding these missiles – we would be empowered to strike against the sites these missiles are launched from," he concludes.

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⚡️Ukrainian forces fired six ATACMS missiles at a facility in the Russian Bryansk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said

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❗️As a result of the anti-missile battle, the S-400 air defense system and the Pantsir missile defense system shot down five US-made ATACMS missiles; one was damaged.
 
Fragments of the damaged ATACMS missile fell on the technical territory of a military facility in the Bryansk region; a fire broke out, but there were no casualties or damage.

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Parliament of Abkhazia accepts resignation of President Aslan Bzhania, Sputnik correspondent reports
 
Vice President of Abkhazia Badra Gunba will serve as head of state until early elections are held; the relevant decision was made by parliament.

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