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The Dow Jones fell more than 300 points after President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for using nuclear weapons and Ukraine fired its first American missile at Russia.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged nearly 350 points on Tuesday morning after Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for using nuclear weapons. This came just days after President Joe Biden approved Ukraine's use of U.S.-made long-range missiles.
President Vladimir Putin has amended the nuclear doctrine to lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons for self-defense purposes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed revised nuclear principles that say any attack on Russia supported by a nuclear-armed state could be grounds for a nuclear response.
President Putin signed the new policy on the 1,000th day of the war with Ukraine and a day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles provided by the United States to attack inside Russia.
According to the Associated Press, the doctrine also states that Russia could respond to aggression against its ally Belarus with nuclear weapons.
Although this principle does not specify that Russia would definitely respond with nuclear weapons to such an attack, it does address “uncertainty in the scale, timing, and location of the use of nuclear deterrence” as an important principle of deterrence. mentioned.
Ukraine has used a long-range missile made in the United States for the first time in an attack inside Russia.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukraine carried out its first attack on Russian territory with a long-range US-made ATACMS missile.
The Russian Ministry of Defense posted on Telegram at 3:25 a.m. on November 19, “The enemy launched an attack with six ballistic missiles targeting facilities in the Bryansk region.''
According to confirmed data, “a US-made ATACMS operational tactical missile was used.”
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