MOSCOW: Russia held planned strategic nuclear drills on Wednesday, a week after NATO began similar annual exercises, as tensions in Europe over the Ukraine war run high.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday we are conducting planned, I would like to emphasize, planned, nuclear forces training,\u201d Russian President Vladimir Putin told generals in a televised meeting.<\/p>\n
NATO began similar annual nuclear exercises focused on the North Sea region last Monday.<\/p>\n
The Russian maneuvers come with efforts faltering to solve the Ukraine war, and after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday shelved planned peace talks with Putin.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s drill involved a mock intercontinental ballistic missile launch from a submarine in the Barents Sea, next to the Western bloc\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n
Another mock rocket was launched from a cosmodrome in northern Russia, while strategic bombers carried out air missile strikes, the Russian military said.<\/p>\n
Videos released by the Russian Ministry of Defense showed the launches from ground, sea and aerial carriers.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s recent air incursions in Poland and Estonia, and a string of unexplained drone flights, have rattled NATO members and renewed calls to beef up the alliance\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to secure US long-range Tomahawk missiles on his last visit to Washington, despite weeks of calling for them.<\/p>\n
Moscow has repeatedly criticized potential supplies of the nuclear-capable missiles, promising a serious escalation if they were to become reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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