What is Russia's military doctrine for deploying tactical nuclear weapons? | DW News

Earlier this month, Russia announced that it had plans to carry out tactical nuclear weapons exercises near the Ukrainian border. On Tuesday, Russia’s military began these drills in the Southern Military District for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The Kremlin says the exercises are in response to Western military officials threatening deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine.

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[gayan]

Don't worry. These are nuclear shovels.

[ingoditrust]

A nuke is a nuke, cut the "tactical" bs

[kguehini]

i like how the expert is saying that the range is pretty limited.
yeah only 2000km, so they will only get to France, but they wont be able to get to Spain or the UK.
so that is pretty good :)

[avex]

DW can you please tell us if the ukrainian counter offensive is still gaining momentum

[MountainDuude]

Don't worry it's tactical 😂 peaceful atomic energy Fallout season 2

[RobertCollins-fqtw]

They better take Russian warning seriously.

[CPTSwoopty]

We had it all people. We had it all. Peace be upon you and your families.

[PicJude]

I am a poor farmer from Russia and yesterday the soldiers took away 3 of my shovels with which I grew potatoes.I need help!

[nlorand]

Politicians will ensure they survive and ordinary citizens can just wave a Ukrainian flag as they enjoy the light show.

[TheHappyCoder]

If we had this news 2 years ago, everyone would be panicking.

But today, we are so numb to all of this that even nukes don't bother us.

[Vivianejb]

Oh my God, what in the world is going on?

[blolee-gcsr]

russia was too gentle compare to israel

[emrekacar]

Finally some sane people explain the situation calmly who don't suggest nothing but escalation from their safe offices with air conditioner.

[celestineobi]

What baffled me so much is that nobody is believing that he might use them, Putin is really mad don't underestimate him.

[enriquelaroche]

15 KT was Hiroshima level she said 1-50

[abdcontractingltd]

The Hiroshima bomb was 15KT and killed 80k people instantly, these are not "tactical"

[untouchablex]

“Not tactical nuclear weapons. It’s special military projectiles.” Russia

[gadflyeye]

The reply to Russia is simple: the West gives a small number of "tactical" nuclear weapons to Ukraine, trains Ukrainians on how to use them, and announces that it relinquishes the trigger-pulling decision to Ukraine, ON CONDITION that such weapons can only be used if Russia uses them first. Ukraine has shown full respect on Western restrictions so far, so it's expected it would do the same with this rule as well.

[srve]

How about we start talking to each other?

[Matthew-rpjf]

Other countries have nukes, Ivan. Russia must be losing if tue nuke threats are coming out