Russia delivers nuclear munitions in Belarus as part of nuclear drills
The three-day drills involved 64,000 troops and 7,800 pieces of equipment, and Russia said the exercise practiced nuclear force preparation under threat of aggression.
- On Thursday, the Russian Defence Ministry announced Russia delivered nuclear munitions to field storage facilities in Belarus as part of major nuclear drills. Missile units are training to load special munitions onto Iskander-M launch vehicles.
- Amid an existential struggle with the West, President Vladimir Putin's three-day nuclear exercise started Tuesday in Russia and Belarus. Throughout the Ukraine conflict, Putin has issued nuclear reminders as warnings to NATO allies.
- Moscow is deploying the Iskander-M, a mobile system NATO calls the 'SS-26 Stone,' which replaced the Soviet Scud. Its guided missiles have a range of up to 300 miles and can carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
- Responding to Lithuania's Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys, the Kremlin dismissed his remarks as 'verging on insanity' on Wednesday. Budrys had suggested NATO must demonstrate capability to penetrate the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
- Strategically located between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast, Kaliningrad serves as headquarters of Russia's Baltic Fleet. The heavily militarized exclave has a population of around 1 million and represents a key flashpoint in NATO tensions.
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Intercontinental ballistic missile trucks rumbled along forest roads, nuclear-powered submarines set sail from Arctic and Pacific ports, and crews boarded war planes as Russia and neighboring Belarus conducted the final stage of their joint nuclear exercises on Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the maneuvers in a video call with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. “The use of nuclear weapons is an extreme and ex…
At the end of a three-day maneuver with Belarus, the Russian nuclear forces tested nuclear-separable missiles.
Moscow relies on land, sea and air-based nuclear weapons in a maneuver. Neighbor Belarus is also involved. What President Putin says about it - and how the military demonstrates its power.
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