'What we need now is not to improve the nuclear doctrine, but the 'Oreshnik',' the Russian president said on Tuesday.
The intermediate-range ballistic Oreshnik missile that Vladimir Putin has recently boasted about may remove the need to use nuclear weapons, the Russian president has said.'What we need now is not to improve the nuclear doctrine, but the 'Oreshnik,' because enough of these modern weapons systems puts us on the verge of virtually eliminating the need to employ nuclear weapons,' he said on Tuesday, according to a Kremlin transcript.
Putin made the comments during a meeting of Russia's civil society and human rights council in response to a question by Marina Akhmedova, editor-in-chief of the REGNUM information agency who told the president how people in Kursk are dealing with Ukraine's incursion into the Russian region.
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