The White House has responded to Russian president, Vladimir Putin’s decision to put nuclear weapons on high alert, after his country’s invasion of Ukraine.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday, February 27, that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to put Russia’s deterrence forces, which includes nuclear arms, on high alert are part of a wider pattern of unprovoked escalation and “manufactured threats” from the Kremlin.
“Top officials in leading NATO countries have allowed themselves to make aggressive comments about our country, therefore I hereby order the Minister of Defense and the chief of the General Staff to place the Russian Army Deterrence Force on combat alert,” Putin said in a televised meeting with top Russian defense officials.
To which the Minister of Defence replied ‘Yes sir’.
Putin also said the Western sanctions placed on Russia were unlawful.
