Putin: Moscow Would Regard Nuclear Attack on Allies as Attack on Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the Federal Assembly, including the State Duma parliamentarians, members of the Federation Council, regional governors and other high-ranking officials, in Moscow, Russia March 1, 2018. (Sputnik/Alexei Nikolskyi/Kremlin via Reuters)

MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, March 1 that Moscow would regard a nuclear attack on its allies as a nuclear attack on Russia itself and would immediately respond.

Putin said that Russia had tested an array of new nuclear weapons, including a new nuclear-powered missile at the end of 2017 which could reach almost any point in the world and could not be intercepted by anti-missile systems.

“We would consider any use of nuclear weapons against Russia or its allies to be a nuclear attack on our country. The response would be immediate,” Putin said in a speech to Russian lawmakers.

Reporting by Andrey Ostroukh and Polina Ivanova

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