The comments appear timed to coincide with President Zelenskyy's address to the UN, as Kyiv continues to appeal for approval to use Western long-range missiles on targets inside Russia.
Russia could use nuclear weapons if it is attacked by any state with conventional missiles, Vladimir Putin has said. In a thinly veiled warning to the West over its support of Ukraine, the Kremlin leader also said he would consider any assault that was supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack on Moscow.
It is a response to deliberations in London and Washington over whether to allow Ukraine to strike deeper inside Russia with Western missiles, including British Storm Shadows. The comments appeared to have been deliberately timed to coincide with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's address to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, as Kyiv continues to appeal for the green light on long-range missiles.
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