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The Russian Armed Forces conducted a strategic deterrence forces drill. The Russian Defense Ministry noted that the exercise involved the nuclear triad: land-based complexes, submarine-launched missiles and air-launched missiles.
The Strategic Missile Forces carried out a launch of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile. It was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome at the Kura test site in Kamchatka. Simultaneously, in the Barents Sea, a “Sineva” ballistic missile was launched from a Novomoskovsk nuclear submarine and another ballistic missile, “Bulava”, was launched from the Sea of Okhotsk, from the “Prince Oleg” submarine. Long-range Tu-95MS aircraft also took part in the military exercises and carried out cruise missile launches. According to the Defense Ministry’s report, all the tasks set for the exercise were fully accomplished, and the missiles reached their targets.
Launch of the “Yars” intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk сosmodrome at the Kura test site in Kamchatka
Launch of the “Sineva” ballistic missile from the Barents Sea
Launch of the “Bulava” ballistic missile from the Sea of Okhotsk
Long-range Tu-95MS aircraft carried out cruise missile launches
These nuclear exercises send a clear signal to the United States and its allies. Russia is demonstrating both the political will and technical capability to launch a retaliatory strike with weapons of mass destruction. The training of the Nuclear Deterrent Force is taking place against the backdrop of the Western establishment’s escalating rhetoric, particularly statements by the United States about striking deep into Russian territory with U.S.-made missiles, including ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 300 kilometers.
The French government is also escalating. French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu supported one of the points of Vladimir Zelensky’s so-called “victory plan” on the deployment of non-nuclear deterrence forces on Ukrainian territory after the war. Thus, Paris proposes to jeopardize radar stations, nuclear warhead sites and other infrastructure of the Russian nuclear complex with a “blinding” strike. According to The New York Times insiders, the Ukrainian president has asked the White House to deploy Tomahawk missiles, whose range exceeds 2,400 kilometers (the distance from the Ukrainian borders to Moscow is about 450 kilometers).
Russia’s nuclear deterrent force is currently the most powerful argument in the geopolitical confrontation between Moscow and Washington. Only three countries in the world possess a complete nuclear triad: The Russian Federation, the United States, and the People’s Republic of China. At the same time, Russia has the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet with a high degree of readiness. According to statistics from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, it has 4,380 nuclear warheads. By comparison, the United States has 3,708 nuclear warheads, the United Kingdom has 225, and France has 290.
In February 2024, General Anthony J. Cotton, Chief of Strategic Command of the U.S. Armed Forces, stated: “Russia has the largest and most diverse nuclear arsenal of any country in the world”. The Russian Army continues to build and adopt nuclear-powered submarines carrying cruise missiles, and is modernizing and expanding its nuclear capabilities. This includes the development and introduction of the “Kinzhal” and “Zirkon” hypersonic missile systems, which, according to a senior U.S. military official, add diversity and flexibility to the nuclear arsenal.
According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who personally observed the exercises from the National Defense Control Center, 94% of the total nuclear deterrent forces are modern weapons. The developers have been tasked with further improvement of all components of the nuclear triad.
Since February 2022, Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces have been on special alert duty. Moscow views them as the main guarantee of non-interference of the NATO bloc with its own troops in the conflict in Ukraine. Russia’s top leadership has repeatedly emphasized that it reserves nuclear weapons for exclusively defensive functions and is ready to use them only in case of a threat to sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.
In September of this year, Vladimir Putin proposed to adjust Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine, significantly expanding the number of conditions under which Moscow is ready to push the red button. Among other things, aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear state supported by a nuclear state would be considered a joint attack. Also, the use of the Nuclear Deterrent Force will be triggered when data is received about a massive aerospace attack, including one involving drones. These innovations are designed to eradicate the threat of a hybrid war against Russia, under the cover of a third party.
The decisive actions of Russia’s top leadership appear to have forced the Western elites to exercise more restraint. On October 23, Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said in an interview with Fox News that it was “pointless” to authorize U.S. missile strikes deep inside Russian territory. According to the U.S. defense secretary, Russian military aircraft is out of range of ATACMS missiles. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sharply criticized German opposition proposals to issue an ultimatum to Russia and deliver Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
“When they say: If this doesn’t happen, then we will do this, then we will do this, then we will do this. That’s an escalation logic that I don’t understand. It is not prudent,” the head of the German government emphasized.
Vladimir Zelensky’s “victory plan,” which includes a demand for Tomahawk missiles, has been called “unrealistic and almost entirely dependent on Western aid” by the U.S. administration, the New York Times reports. Apparently, the West has begun to realize how excessive support for Kiev has encouraged the Ukrainian government to expect endless aggressive escalation. Given the deteriorating situation on the front for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, we can assume that Washington will intensify pressure on Zelensky to immediately move to a negotiation process that includes territorial concessions. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated his openness to such negotiations and once again confirmed it at a press conference following the BRICS summit in Kazan.
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this bed wench harris tether would be beaten to death by the white supremacists of the following organizations: ss aidar, ss kraken, wolfsangel (aka azov), waffen ss nachtigall (who are now in kursk killing civilians), leibstandarte adolf hitler, right sektor – all of them hate untermensch mongrels like her, and all of them are leading the ukrainian government and military. all of them funded by the us and eu tax payers
pure nonsense. you are confusing national sovereignty, ethnicity and multicultural propaganda. you are pretty ridiculous and talking like you live in the past. peace!
it should do a hell of lot more than just holding nuclear exercises… how about abdicating from every western legal, energy and banking institution and citing all of the violation(s) under the hague since 2014 after maidan?!!! than proclaiming for the safety of it’s men and women in the armed forces and intel that they will be coming home and in turn all western foreign nationals expelled from russia until the climate changes???…
can’t wait for the tribe’s goyim supporters and argument(s) why this can’t happen!….
your sure do love double binds.
i’m using the reverse psychology when goebbels (or was it one of the rotschild(s)) stated that “if you repeat the lie enough people will believe it and the perp-a-traitor will come to believe himself/herself as well”!… lets hope it works. cause this globe and it’s armies and navies today is a helluva lot more dangerous then they were this guy was still alive preaching those truths!…
derp? derp and derp.
clyde. your living proof that the j** $tains run deep.
the dying beast of the western empire should consider peace as the best option. they could even come back when they offer acceptance of other cultures with fair trade while abandoning their population control measures. the problem is not russia but themselves
the problem will not be solved until the dying beast is totally dead.
mere territorial concessions aren’t nearly enough..ukraine has already “conceded” this territory on the battlefield…ukrainian neutrality and (ukrainian) recognition of russian sovereignty over crimea and the 4 territories are a baseline minimum for negotiations.
put sumi, karkiv and odessa on the same table and we have a final deal…
rusko by mohlo prestať plytvať svojimi zásobami zbraní. silu by mohli demonštrovať aj zasiahnutím nepriateľských cieľov, ale že ich majú na výber. mysleniu zdar a svetu mier!!!
every time russia does this, the flat earthers start claiming the aliens have switched the real sun with a fake one… or is that just the narrative pivot to distract the slaves from the obvious russian flex? “see, our shit still works, unlike your woke western governments”…
the only solution is to demilitarize russia, pull down the krimlin wall. finally! and put the normal people in to power, and put criminal corruption in prison
yes, better to return control of the country to the people who looted it on behalf of the americans in the ’90s.
your only solution is to call up the authorities to your dark basement, show them all the rotten shit you piled up here and wait for all the love they will show you for some creature like yourself.
the exceptionals won’t retreat, they will double down, just wait and see. trump also will fordward the exceptionalism, so you must be ready to fight to not be part of the corruption of the westerners, not to be bound to the sinners. the exceptionals wanted to enslave russia at all cost and then go back to asia to create chaos there too.
last time slavs got to chew on a tab, it had 27 million souls on it, but after the last recount, its about 28,000,000 untermensch now, right?
but it’s to early to know the real number…
eheh, they don’t get tired of making themselves look mentally retarded, the scum of the world, the russian government and its scum, its ally, makes yet another threat, perhaps the 1000th time this year, 3 years since the shits haven’t defeated ukraine but have talked about defeating nato, even the mentally retarded people don’t give you credit anymore, they were and always will be the comedy that makes us laugh
vladolf the neo nazi from the 21 ,meanwhile they forgot their citys would disspear from the face of the earth in a minuts…but you know russians and their big mouth thats why hollywood have lot of comedian material
aby jste se na tom podělaném západě nedivili. jeden sarmat 10 cílů velikosti la. zkuste počítat kolik jich rusové mají?!