President Putin monitors and inspects launching of two missiles of Russia.
The Kremlin said that missiles including Ballistic and cruise missiles were launched from the Arctic to Russia’s far east.
The last nuclear drill in Russia took place 5 days before it invaded Ukraine. Perhaps, that is why the news of nuclear drill seems suspicious.
The US was told about the drill under the terms of the New Start arms treaty.
Under the terms of the New Start arms treaty, the United states got to know about the drill.
As per the claims made by russia, the ukraine was plotting to use a “dirty bomb”, which is the reason why Russia is launching the missiles, even though the allegations made by Russia against ukraine has been widely denied by western countries.
An explosive device mixed with radioactive material is called a “dirty bomb”.
As per the reports, all the missiles reached their targets.
Kremlin informed the media that a yars inter continental ballistic missile was launched from plesetsk cosmodrome, and a Sineva ballistic missile was fired from Barents sea to the kura test site in kamchatka province.
On russian TV, picture of president putin watching a video clip of the launch was shown.He accused ukraine of plotting dirty bomb in another footage.
Oleksiy Reznikov,defence minister of ukraine said as per his personal opinion Putin will not use nukes and he also expressed that the Ukraine’s counter-offensive in the south had been hampered by rainy weather.
Before, Putin, while addressing people, has said that Russia has weapons for destruction and he will not hesitate to use them in serious condition and he is surely not bluffing.
Russia has informed the US about the launching of missiles too as per the START treaty.
START Treaty
START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a treaty signed between the Union of Soviet socialist Republic (USSR) and the USA on the limitation and reduction of strategic and offensive arms. This treaty was signed on 31st july 1991 and entered force on 5th December 1994.
The New START Treaty came with even more limitations on the United States and Russia by reducing their strategic assets within seven years of it coming into force.
Amidst tensions between Ukraine and Russia, the nuclear drilling is bringing suspicion and fear to the people. Defense minister of Russia, Sergey Shoigu justified the military drills by saying that Russia is preparing to launch a counterattack in case the country is attacked by nuclear weapons.
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