Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons even against offensive action using conventional weapons, said Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and current deputy chairman of the country's security council.
"We have a special document on nuclear deterrence. This document clearly indicates the reasons why the Russian Federation is entitled to use nuclear weapons," said Medvedev whose country has about 6,000 nuclear warheads, the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in the world.
"There are some of them, let me remind you: Number one is the situation, when Russia is hit by a nuclear missile. The second situation is any use of other nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies. The third is an attack on a critical infrastructure that would have crippled our nuclear deterrent. And the fourth case is when an act of aggression is committed against Russia and its allies, which has endangered the existence of the country itself, even without the use of nuclear weapons, that is, using conventional weapons," he said.
He added that there is "determination to defend the independence, the sovereignty of our country, not to give anyone any reason to doubt in the slightest that we are ready to give a deserved response to any violation of our country, of its independence."
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