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or B) "in response to large-scale aggression with the use of conventional weapons in situations critical to the national security of the Russian Federation."The doctrine also said that Russia could not use nuclear weapons against Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) states that do not possess such weapons – unless those states attacked Russia jointly along with a state that did have nukes.Ukraine became a party to the non-proliferation treaty in 1994 after voluntarily giving up a massive nuclear arsenal accumulated under the Soviet Union.On June 7
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