The Russian Foreign Ministry has released a comment on the new US nuclear doctrine; this official commentary has been posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website.

"The content of the new nuclear doctrine (the so-called ‘Nuclear Posture Review’), which was unveiled in the United States on February 2, caused us deep disappointment. Already, upon first acquaintance, the confrontational charge and anti-Russian orientation of this document are striking. With regret we note that the US has justified its course toward a large-scale buildup of nuclear weapons by referencing Russia's modernization of nuclear forces," the report said.

The Foreign Ministry says that all this bears no resemblance to the real state of affairs, as the Russian Federation’s military doctrine limits the possibility of using nuclear weapons to two scenarios: in response to aggression against Russia or its allies that uses nuclear and/or other weapons of mass destruction, or if the existence of the State itself should be jeopardized.

"We, of course, will have to take into account the approaches now put into circulation in Washington, and take necessary measures to ensure our own security," the agency answered, and called on the United States "to seriously engage in a joint search for solutions to the accumulating problems in maintaining strategic stability."

The doctrine published by the Pentagon says that Russia must understand the inadmissibility of the use of any nuclear weapons, as well as that the United States intends to expand its nuclear potential in order to keep Russia from using its nuclear weapons.

At Davos, Donald Trump said that the US would do its best to ensure that North Korea and Iran are left without nuclear weapons.

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