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How Putin Uses ‘Nuclear Coercion’ Against Ukraine – and the West

Vladimir Putin keeps warning the world about Russia's nuclear arsenal. Would he ever use it?

A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher rolls on Red Square during the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 9, 2024. (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)

EXPERT INTERVIEWS — It’s a warning Russia has issued repeatedly since the first days of its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine: Don’t forget that we are a nuclear power. 

The latest iteration of that warning came via the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in a speech to world leaders that was loaded with bluster.

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