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]."
Putin vows more test of new hypersonic missile
Russia launches 'ICBM' for first time against Ukraine: Kiev
Russia lowers nuclear weapons threshold after US allows Ukraine to use missiles
VIDEO | Hezbollah rains attack drones down on elite Israeli brigade
Leader: All captains of criminal, Zionist, terrorist gang must be prosecuted
Iran further raises its oil prices for Chinese buyers: Report
Iran to launch major pressure-boosting projects in South Pars
VIDEO | Escalation amid ceasefire talks
EU's Borrell says ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders binding
VIDEO | Press TV's News Headlines
VIDEO | Massacre in Pakistan’s Parachinar sparks outrage
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
