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UK says Putin nuclear remarks aimed to distract from Ukraine troubles

Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear deterrent alert is rhetoric designed to distract from the invasion of Ukraine and not linked practical steps to increase readiness to use the weapons, British Defence secretary Ben Wallace said on Monday.

Putin put Russia's nuclear deterrent on high alert on Sunday, which the United States said served to escalate the war with "dangerous rhetoric".

"He's made this... 


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