Putin henchman warns: Nuclear attack is “most likely” coming. Putin threatens to use nuclear weapons if Western troops fight in Ukraine.
Czech Republic imposes sanctions against oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk. Secret files show that Russia's threshold for nuclear war is lower than expected. Some 29 secret Russian military documents reportedly set operational thresholds for first use of tactical or non-strategic nuclear weapons. “They show that the operational threshold for using nuclear weapons is quite low if the result cannot be achieved with conventional ones," says Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Eurasia Center.