The Kremlin stated today that the amendments to nuclear doctrine her of Russia have been prepared and are about to be finalized, which means that the relevant documents defining the conditions under which nuclear weapons can be used by Moscow will be updated.

The president Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that proposed changes to the doctrine would allow Russia to use nuclear weapons if hit by conventional missiles and that it would regard any attack against it backed by a nuclear power as a joint attack.

The changes are widely seen as an attempt by Putin to draw a “red line” for the United States and its allies by sending the message that Moscow will consider responding with nuclear weapons if they allow Ukraine to strike deep into Russian territory. with western long-range missiles.

The representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov he told state television journalist Pavel Zarubin today: “The amendments have been prepared and will now be finalized.”

Peskov cited the international situation, escalating tensions near Russia’s borders and the growing proximity of its infrastructure NATO in them, and what he called a deeper involvement of Western nuclear forces in the Ukraine war on the side of Kiev, as a background to the changes in doctrine.