London: On Feb 28, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the possibility of readying a nuclear deterrent to distract from a lack of progress in the invasion of Ukraine. “He’s made this comment. We keep it under review,” Wallace told. “But you know, what we shouldn’t really forget is that this is a big attempt to distract away from his troubles in Ukraine by just deploying into the sort of media space these phrases,” he added.
