How serious are Putin's nuclear threats?

普京的核威胁有多严重?

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2024-11-21

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Your questions answered on ATACMS, land mines and the risk of escalation Jamie and Vitaly are joined by the defence editor of the Economist, Shashank Joshi, to examine how useful ATACMS can be for Ukraine, what exactly are anti-personnel land-mines and whether we should take Russia's change to its nuclear doctrine seriously. Today’s episode is presented by Jamie Coomarasamy and Vitaly Shevchenko. The producer was Ben Carter. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sara Wadeson. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480 You can join the Ukrainecast discussion on Newscast’s Discord server here: tinyurl.com/ukrainecastdiscord
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  • It's 1,001 days since Russia began its full scale invasion of Ukraine.

  • And Vitaly, in that last day, the last 24 hours or so, rather a lot has happened, hasn't it?

  • Yes, there have been significant developments, such as the US President Joe Biden agreeing to provide Ukraine controversially with anti personnel landmines.

  • The Russian President Vladimir Putin has a approved changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine, significantly lowering the threshold to using nuclear weapons.

  • And on Tuesday morning, a strike confirmed to have used US supplied ATACMS missiles targeted a Russian weapon storage facility in Bransk region bordering Ukraine to the north.

  • Yes, and there's been a clip circulating online showing US supplied ATACMS missiles being fired from Ukraine, which we are relatively confident happened yesterday.

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