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Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine makes defeat over its army impossible — SVR chief

Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

20 November 2024 13:21 (UTC +04:00)

The West acknowledges that Russia’s revised nuclear doctrine has significantly weakened the efforts of the United States and NATO to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, making victory in conventional warfare unachievable, said Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), in an interview with National Defense magazine, APA reports citing TASS.

The West has responded cautiously to Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement of changes to Russia’s nuclear deterrence strategy, he explained. "They realize that the revisions Putin outlined have largely undermined the attempts by the United States and NATO to achieve a strategic defeat of our nation. Furthermore, the expanded criteria for using nuclear weapons essentially rule out the possibility of defeating the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield," Naryshkin noted.