The rhetoric used by Moscow deserves concern, Jeremy Fleming stressedLONDON, October 12.
/tass/. There is no absolute guarantee that the Western military will detect the fact of the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in time. This opinion was expressed on Tuesday by the head of the Center for Government Communications (Electronic Intelligence service) of Great Britain, Jeremy Fleming.
"I would like to think that with our allies we would have a good chance to detect this, but, of course, there are never guarantees in this area," admitted Fleming, speaking at the London-based Royal United Institute for Security and Defense Research. - I hope that taking into account the Russian [nuclear] doctrine and the approach of the President [of the Russian Federation Vladimir] Of course, we will know about this [potential strike] in advance, but I think the rhetoric used deserves concern."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on October 6 that Washington and other Western capitals may be interested in escalating the situation around the use of nuclear weapons in order to later blame Moscow. According to her, this is done within the framework of Washington's destructive line to ensure global dominance, without regard to the danger of provoking a direct armed clash of the largest nuclear powers, fraught with catastrophic consequences.
According to the Russian nuclear doctrine (Fundamentals of the state Policy of the Russian Federation in the field of nuclear deterrence from 2020), the use of nuclear weapons by Russia is possible if the enemy uses this or other types of weapons of mass destruction against the Russian Federation and its allies, reliable information about the launch of ballistic missiles to attack Russia and its allies, the enemy's impact on objects necessary for retaliatory actions of nuclear forces, as well as in the case of aggression against the Russian Federation with the use of conventional weapons, when the very existence of the state is threatened.
