Russia's Top General: Will Use Nuclear Weapons Against Any Imminent Threat To Russia's National Security

Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov. © RIA Novosti. Vladimir Vyatkin

Russia Would Use Nukes to Stave Off Threats - General Staff -- RIA Novosti

Russia would use nuclear weapons in response to any imminent threat to its national security, Chief of the Russian General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said on Wednesday.

“We are certainly not planning to fight against the whole of NATO,” Makarov said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio, “but if there is a threat to the integrity of the Russian Federation, we have the right to use nuclear weapons, and we will.”

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