Top US intelligence official warns the Kremlin could use nuclear weapons if Putin thought Nato would intervene in Ukraine

 The head of America’s national intelligence organisation has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin may use nuclear weapons.  Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate the Kremlin may take the drastic step to avoid getting bogged down in longer war over Ukraine.  She said Russia will become  “more unpredictable and escalatory” as it [...]