Putin says Russia won't need to use nuclearweapons for victory in Ukraine | BBC News

President Vladimir Putin has claimed that Russia won'tneed to use nuclear weapons to achieve victory in Ukraine.

Ever since Russia'sinvasion of Ukraine, Moscow hasbeen engaged in nuclear sabre-rattling, dropping aseries of hints that trying to defeat a nuclear powerlike Russia could have disastrous consequences.

However the Russian President did not rule outMoscow carrying out a nuclear test. He was speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Steve Rosenberg.