Russia carries out exercises with mobile nuclear missile units
Russia has conducted fresh military drills, deploying mobile nuclear missile launchers amid Moscow's escalated tensions with Western countries over the war in Ukraine.
Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday it was conducting drills involving Yars mobile nuclear missile launchers, less than a month after it held tactical nuclear weapons deployment exercises alongside ally Belarus.
Yars missile launcher crews in at least two different regions were set to move over 100 km and practice missile camouflage and deployment, it said, adding, "Similar exercises will be held by other missile units in the near future."
The defense ministry published a video showing a mobile launcher maneuvering along forest roads and taking up position before troops covered it in camouflage netting.
Earlier in mid-June, Russia conducted tactical nuclear weapons drills with neighboring Belarus to counter the Western countries' plot to drag Minsk into a war.
Speaking at the international economic forum in St Petersburg on June 16, Putin reassured that the country had no need to use nuclear weapons to secure Moscow's victory in the Ukraine war.
However, the Russian leader also pointed out that Moscow will not allow “anyone” to threaten the country, warning others about a possible global-scale clash with Western countries in the near future.
Putin, who in May was sworn in for a record-breaking fifth six-year term as Russia’s president, said, “Russia will do everything to prevent a global clash. But at the same time we will not allow anyone to threaten us."
"Our strategic forces are always in a state of combat readiness,” he said while giving further assurance to Russia's adversaries that Moscow presently had no need for a nuclear strike. "Nuclear weapons have been made to ensure our security in the broadest sense of the word and the existence of the Russian state, but we...have no such need [presently to use them]."
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