The director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the country’s updated nuclear doctrine virtually excludes the possibility of defeating it on the battlefield.
Naryshkin about thistold in an interviewto the magazine “National Defense.” “The planned expansion of the list of grounds for the use of nuclear weapons actually excludes the possibility of victory over the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield,” said the head of the SVR.
According to him, the West was wary of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements about changes to the document. The adjustments devalue the efforts of the United States and NATO to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, Naryshkin added.
