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   Putin orders nuclear deterrent forces to be on 'high alert' amid spiraling   
   tensions over Ukraine   
   The Russian premier said in a meeting of top officials that the move was in   
   response to leading NATO powers making what he called “aggressive   
   statements.”   
   Feb. 27, 2022, 8:44 AM EST   
   By Patrick Smith   
      
   President Vladimir Putin on Sunday ordered his military’s nuclear deterrent   
   forces to be on alert as international tensions over Russia’s four-day-old   
   invasion of Ukraine spiraled.   
      
   Putin said in a meeting of top officials shown on state TV on Sunday that the   
   move, which means the country’s nuclear weapons are prepared for increased   
   readiness to launch, was in response to NATO powers making what he called   
   “aggressive statements.”   
      
   Russia, like the United States and NATO forces, has thousands of nuclear   
   warheads that it maintains as a deterrent to an attack.   
      
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   The move is also a reaction to the West announcing hard-hitting financial   
   sanctions against Russian businesses and key individuals, including Putin   
   himself, the president said in televised comments.   
      
   The Russian defense minister, Sergey Shoygu, and the chief of the military’s   
   general staff have been ordered to put the nuclear deterrent forces in a what   
   was described as a “special regime of combat duty.”   
      
   Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the United Nations,   
   told NBC News’ Meet the Press on Sunday morning that “President Putin is   
   continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable.”   
    vasion of Ukraine as its oligarch owner seeks distance from Moscow   
      
   “And we have to continue to condemn his actions in the most strong, strongest   
   possible way,” she added   
      
   Putin had promised a strong reaction to any Western power that attempted to   
   stand in his way in Ukraine. In a speech announcing his offensive on   
   Thursday, he warned that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action   
   “will lead you to such consequences that you have never faced in your   
   history.”   
      
   In February 2021, the United States renewed the New Strategic Arms Reduction   
   Treaty, or New START, the nuclear arms control treaty with Russia, for   
   another five years.   
      
   Signed in 2010 by Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev of Russia, the   
   agreement placed the lowest limits in decades on American and Russian   
   deployed nuclear warheads, and the land- and submarine-based missiles and   
   bombers that deliver them.   
      
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