In attendance: Jacques Baud. Former member of the Swiss Tactical Intelligence Service with experience in high-level security and advising roles for organizations like NATO and the United Nations, as well as the Swiss armed forces.
Putin did not threaten to deploy nuclear weapons during his address on September 21. In the case of “a risk to the territorial sovereignty of our nation and to protect Russia and our people,” he promised to “make use of all armed systems available to us.”