Ukraine attacked Russia's western Kursk region on August

Ukraine attacked Russia's western Kursk region on August
6 and has carved out a slice of territory in the biggest
foreign attack on Russia since World W@r Two. President
Vladimir Putin said there would be a worthy response
from Russia to the attack.
Sergei Lavrov, who has served as Putin's foreign minister
for more than 20 years, said that the West was seeking to
escalate the Ukraine war and was "asking for trouble" by
considering Ukrainian requests to halt a ban on using
foreign-supplied weapons in deep parts of Russia.
Since invading Ukraine in 2022, Putin has repeatedly
warned of the risk of a much larger war involving the
world's biggest nuclear powers, though he has said Russia
does not want a conflict with the U.S.-led NATO alliance.
"We are now confirming once again that playing with fre -
and they are like small children playing with matches - is a
very dangerous thing for grown-up uncles and aunts who
are entrusted with nuclear weapons in one or another
Western country" Lavrov told reporters in Moscow.
"'Americans unequivocally associate conversations about
the Third World War as something that, God forbid, if it
happens, will affect Europe exclusively" Lavrov said.
Lavrov added that Russia was "clarifying" its nuclear
doctrine.
Russia's 2020 nuclear doctrine says the president can use
a nuclear weapon "when the very existence of the state is
put under threat".