Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on Thursday that Moscow's nuclear war policy is 'constantly analyzed.'
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, warned that while Moscow's nuclear war policy hasn't changed, the situation is fluid.When asked if Russia's nuclear doctrine would be updated to include the possibility of a preventive strike, Ryabkov told reporters on Thursday: 'The doctrine and basics of state policy in the area of nuclear deterrence explicitly state the possibilities for the first use of nuclear weapons.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, thousands of nuclear arms were abandoned in Ukraine, leaving Kyiv at the time with the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world. The Budapest Memorandum affirmed Ukraine's security and sovereignty in exchange for giving up the nuclear stocks.Russia and Ukraine signed the agreement in December 1994, along with the United States, the United Kingdom, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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