Putin: Nuclear nations supporting attacks on Russia can be considered aggressors

President Vladimir Putin said an attack against Russia by a non-nuclear power with support of a nuclear power will be seen as their ‘joint attack on the Russian Federation’ (Valery Sharifulin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo/AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a nuclear power supporting another country’s attack on Russia will be considered a participant in aggression.

Speaking during Wednesday’s meeting of Russia’s Security Council, which considers changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine, Mr Putin announced that a revised version of the document says that an attack against Russia by a non-nuclear power with support of a nuclear power will be seen as their “joint attack on the Russian Federation”.