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In a television interview in France, foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot has dismissed Vladimir Putin's approval of a new nuclear doctrine yesterday as rhetoric, and, Reuters reports, said We are not intimidated."

The change in nuclear doctrine yesterday lowered the threshold for Russia's use of nuclear weapons, with a significant development being that Russia says it now considers a nuclear response justified if it is on the receiving end of aggression by a non-nuclear power that is being aided by a nuclear power.