Russia wants to include in the military doctrine of the possibility of using nuclear weapons because of the poor state of its armed forces. Told the head of analytical department of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis (Russia) Alexander Khramchikhin.

Obviously, the government is aware that the usual armed forces in general can not engage in any war. The only option for Russia – the use of nuclear weapons, otherwise it will lose – quoted expert UNIAN .

At the same time, he noted that Russia's leadership still in the 90 years stated that in the case of large-scale aggression can be applied to nuclear weapons, if it threatens the existence of the state.

expert believes that Russia's poorly trained army demonstrated last year's Russo-Georgian conflict. Armed forces of Russia are in poor condition, and in addition they have very little that the fight they will no longer be with anyone. If you collect all the conventional forces, for example, all ground forces in one place, then they will be able to Ukraine and Georgia to win success but since they are scattered over the entire space of Russia, and the distances we know what … factions separately in each direction will not have to fight with anybody, – he said.

Recall, October 14, Secretary of Russia's Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, said that the new edition of the Military Doctrine of Russia provides for the possibility of nuclear strike in the critical situation for Russia.