Proposals had been made to change Russia's nuclear doctrine to allow for attacking any non-nuclear state that had the participation or support of a nuclear state, Putin said.

Proposals had been made to change Russia’s nuclear doctrine to allow for attacking any non-nuclear state that had the participation or support of a nuclear state, Putin said.

  • @takedaEnglish
    34•3 months ago

    LOL, that ammunition dump explosion must have really burned him.

      • @takedaEnglish
        3•3 months ago

        Here’s one video talking about it: https://youtu.be/NdPjS3EvcFU

        There videos of actual expressions which were spectacular.

        The biggest one registered as 2.8 rather on Richter scale

        Ukrainians destroyed it just as the ammunition from North Korea arrived.

        Edit: here’s the video of the explosion https://youtu.be/igdgA-LHZHU

        • @[email protected]English
          2•3 months ago

          Ahh I’m sorry to waste your time, I know about them. I just meant to say “there’s more than one!”

          It’s hard to take joy from anything in this war, but seeing the Kremlin’s ammunition lighting up the sky with a thousand foot fireball, knowing it would save many Ukrainian lives, was incredible. Some of the craters in the satellite photos are very impressive.

          • @[email protected]OPEnglish
            3•3 months ago

            There were three in three or four days, though the first depot, at Toropets, was the most-significant.

            At least the first involved a substantial number of Ukranian long-range UAVs – I saw “about 100” quoted in coverage of it – and given that this current statement references large UAV or missile strikes and comes shortly after those, I guess that it might indeed be in response to those.

            EDIT:

            https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/18/russia-may-have-stockpiled-its-best-missiles-at-an-arsenal-in-the-town-of-toropets-which-is-why-ukraine-just-blew-it-up-with-100-drones/

            That so many of Russia’s best munitions were reportedly concentrated in a single location explains why Ukraine devoted such a large force to the attack. RBC-Ukraine claimed more than 100 drones were involved—potentially making the Toropets raid the biggest Ukrainian strike on a target inside Russia since Russia widened its war on Ukraine 30 months ago.

            and here:

            “The conditions for Russia’s transition to the use of nuclear weapons are also clearly fixed,” Putin said, adding that Moscow would consider such a move if it detected the start of a massive launch of missiles, aircraft, or drones against it.

            • @[email protected]English
              2•3 months ago

              I hope the speculation about them hitting missiles is right. Much harder to replace them than artillery shells or small arms ammunition.