‘Russia doesn’t want to use nuclear weapons’: The view from wartime Moscow

Photographs showing officials, including President Putin, on display next to the so-called Russia's nuclear briefcase, also known as the 'Cheget', at the exposition of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre in Yekaterinburg, Russia, October 18, 2022 [File: Natalia Chernokhatova/Reuters]

Russia, which holds the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear warheads, has unveiled its new nuclear doctrine, lowering its threshold for nuclear engagement while continuing its invasion of Ukraine.

But as panic sets in across some Western nations, Russian experts say Moscow does not want to tap into its arsenal.