
Burkovskyi, Zhovtenko: Going nuclear or mad? Russia pretends both to hide capability gaps
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Amid the failures of its full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia hurries up the overhaul of its nuclear strategy, indicating that the Kremlin understands that it has lost in Ukraine but tries to maintain credible nuclear threats.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu officially announced on April 4 that Belarus has already received nuclear-capable