Moscow: Russia’s military warned in an article published on Friday that its country would see any ballistic missile coming into its territory as a nuclear attack that needed to be responded to with a nuclear weapon. This strict warning, published in the official military newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star), was directed at the US, which is working towards developing long-range non-nuclear weapons. The article comes after the publication of Russia’s nuclear deterrence policy in June, which called for the use of nuclear weapons in response to a traditional attack on the nation’s important government and military structures.
In an article published in Krasnaya Zvezda, senior officers of the Russian Army General Staff, Major General Andrei Sterlin and Colonel Alexander Krypin said that there is no way to decide whether the incoming ballistic missile is a nuclear warhead or a conventional warhead, so the military It will see it as a nuclear attack.
The article stated, “In the context of any attacking missile, it is presumed to be equipped with nuclear warheads.” It said, “The information about the missile will be automatically transmitted to the Russian military and political leadership. Which will determine the scope of retaliation by the nuclear forces in view of the circumstances that are being created. ” This argument has long been associated with Russia’s development of long-range weaponry under which America can gain the capability to target major military and government installations without the use of nuclear weapons.
