❗️Foreign mercenaries fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been added to the Russian Federation's register of terrorists. Who are they?

🇺🇸🇳🇿Mercenaries from the United States, Derrick Bales and Daniel Bernard Rebar, as well as New Zealander Jordan O'Brien, who are participating in military operations on the side of Kiev, have been added to the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring.

The "merits" of these three include participation in the invasion of the Kursk region, insults and threats to Russians, close contacts with the terrorist "Azov" banned in the Russian Federation, and much more.

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⚡️❗️Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the updated nuclear doctrine - Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence

🔹The basic principle of the doctrine: nuclear weapons (NW) are an extreme measure to protect the country's sovereignty. At the same time, due to the emergence of new military threats and risks, Russia needed to clarify the parameters that allow the use of NW.

🔹In particular, the category of states and military alliances in relation to which nuclear deterrence is carried out has been expanded.

🔹The list of military threats for the neutralization of which such actions are needed has been supplemented.

🔹Aggression from any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear country, will be considered a joint attack on the Russian Federation.

🔹In addition, a nuclear response from Russia is possible in the event of a critical threat to its sovereignty, even with conventional weapons, in the event of an attack on Belarus as a member of the Union State, in the event of a massive launch of military aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, other aircraft and their crossing the Russian border.

🔹The previous version of the Russian nuclear doctrine was approved in June 2020. It replaced a similar document adopted 10 years earlier.

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💬Dmitry Peskov's main statements:

▪️The use of Western non-nuclear missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the Russian Federation under the new doctrine could lead to a nuclear response;

▪️The Russian Federation considers the use of nuclear weapons as an extreme forced measure;

▪️The nuclear doctrine update was required to bring the document into line with the current political situation;

▪️A potential adversary must understand the inevitability of retaliation for aggression against the Russian Federation, this is what nuclear deterrence is aimed at;

▪️The Russian Federation always takes a responsible position and makes efforts to reduce the nuclear threat;

▪️The updated nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation was published in a timely manner;

▪️The Russian military is closely monitoring the situation amid publications about plans to use ATACMS missiles in the Kursk region;

▪️The special operation is taking place in the context of a war unleashed by the West against the Russian Federation, and will continue until the set goals are achieved.

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⚡️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on the situation with the ATACMS missile strike on the Bryansk region at a press conference at the G20 summit:

▪️The ATACMS missile strikes on the Bryansk region are a signal that the West wants escalation;

▪️The Russian Federation will perceive the launches of long-range missiles controlled by US military experts as a qualitatively new phase of the war on the part of the West;

▪️The ATACMS missile strikes on the Bryansk region would have been impossible without the participation of the Americans;

▪️The Russian Federation is strictly committed to the position of preventing a nuclear war;

▪️There has been no official confirmation of the US decision to strike deep into the Russian Federation, information is coming from the media;

▪️Moscow will respond accordingly to the US decision to strike deep into the Russian Federation;

▪️Lavrov called Scholz's position on refusing to supply Kiev with Taurus missiles and strike Russia responsible.