St Petersburg, 22 October: Russia is not disclaiming its status as a nuclear power, like other countries that possess these weapons, secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev has said.

"If there are weapons of mass destruction, then one needs to be ready to use them," Patrushev told journalists in St Petersburg on Thursday (22 October) after a session of leaders of the constituent parts of the Northwest Federal District.

He expressed the hope that the new version of Russia's military doctrine would be presented to the president before the end of the year.

"I hope that we will present the military doctrine to the president before the end of the year," he said.

Patrushev said that this would be the third version of the military doctrine in modern Russia after the document of 1993 and the current document of 2000.

"We should understand that the situation in the world and the country is changing dynamically. And if in 1993 we said that military conflicts were ruled out, now we should realize that large-scale conflicts are not ruled out either."

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