President Russia Vladimir Putin oversee and lead the latest military exercises involving ballistic and cruise missile test launches. This exercise is claimed by the Minister of Defense (Menhan) Sergej Shoigu as a simulation of a “massive nuclear strike” to retaliate against enemy nuclear attacks.
As reported CNN And Associated PressThursday (10/27/2022), the last Russian military exercise held on Wednesday (10/26) local time became a show of strength amid mounting tensions with the West over the conflict in the West. Ukraine.
The Kremlin or the Russian presidential office said in a statement that the military exercise involved launching intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and other types of ballistic missiles.
“At the Kura firing range in Kamchatka, the Yars ICBM was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome and the Sineva Ballistic Missile was launched from the Barents Sea,” the Kremlin said in a statement.
A number of Russian Tu-95MS fighters, the Kremlin said, were also deployed in the test launch of an aerial cruise missile.
The Kremlin said that all the tasks planned for the exercise were completed and all the missiles tested were able to hit the intended targets.
Putin, who is the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, oversaw the drills from the control room and listened to Shoigu’s reports during the drills. In his report to Putin, Shoigu called the exercises intended to simulate a “massive nuclear attack in response to an enemy nuclear attack”.
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