Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved a new nuclear doctrine, lowering the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks.

Russian president Vladimir Putin may be facing another uprising against Russian influence in Abkhazia, a breakaway region in Georgia, engulfed by protests.

Ukraine launched American-made ATACMS missiles at Russia shortly before President Vladimir Putin lowered his country’s threshold for authorizing a nuclear strike, Moscow said Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry said its forces shot down five out of six Army Tactical Missile System projectiles,