Angry Putin ‘Adjusts’ Russia’s Nuclear Policy Amid Ukraine’s Kursk Incursion; Lavrov Warns West

• Russia ‘refining’ nuclear doctrine – Lavrov
  by https://www.rt.com/
  Western officials are behaving like unruly kids playing with matches, the country’s top diplomat has said
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  Moscow is “refining” its nuclear doctrine in the face of Western policies, which appear to be intentionally geared towards escalation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. His comments come as Ukraine is urging Western arms donors to greenlight the use of their weapons for long-range strikes deep inside Russia. On Tuesday, Lavrov said Moscow is interpreting those requests as a distraction from the West’s own role in ratcheting up tensions with Russia.
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  ”This is a ruse. The West does not want to avoid escalation. The West is, as they say, asking for trouble,” he told journalists during a joint press conference with Foreign Minister Shaya Mohsen Al-Zindani of the Aden-based government of Yemen.
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  Lavrov argued that statements by US officials claiming that Europe would suffer first in a new world war exposed a flaw in American geopolitical thinking. “Planners in the US are convinced that they can sit on the sidelines” of a hypothetical war with Russia, he suggested.
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