As the world awaits Russia’s response to Sunday’s Ukrainian drone strike on its strategic bombers, a former aide to President Vladimir Putin contended that the attack calls for a nuclear response.

According to reports, Ukraine’s Security Service confirmed that its drone attack — described as Moscow’s Pearl Harbor — on four air bases and more than 40 planes deep within Russian territory caused $7 billion in damage.

“Such a large-scale attack on the components of the strategic nuclear potential on Russia’s nuclear doctrine may be the basis for the use of nuclear weapons by Russia,” Sergei Markov, the former Putin adviser and now political scientist, wrote on Telegram, according to Russian news outlet Moskovsky Komsomolets.

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