ITT: people confusing remarks by a parlamentarian as official statements by the Ministry of Defense or the head of the executive.

The red line about deep strikes has been around ever since the beginning of the war, with only minor adjustment of nuclear policy since the Storm Shadow/ATACMS deployment back in November last year. Instead of nuclear war all we got was the live test of the Oreshnik.

The current Russian leadership is cautious to a fault when it comes to nuclear escalation. A single parlamentarian is not going to change that, and the headline is misleading. Instead of being smug about it for the 100th time since the beginning of the war, pray that the UA army doesn't get their hands on a dirty bomb.

that is one of the two purposes of having nuclear weapons

oh no they will get strongly worded condemnations from world leaders

I mean no shit?

I see a flaw in this strategy.

Personally? I'm against the use of nuclear weapons in this way.