Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine on February 24 of this year. Within three days of commencing hostilities, he ordered the Russian military to put its 6,000 nuclear warhead arsenal onto ‘special combat readiness’.
This order was not carried out after the Russian military campaign stalled, the Russian-Chechen massacre of Ukrainian civilians at Bucha was discovered, or after the Russian Black Sea flagship Moskva was sunk.
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