US EditionRussia Conducts Nuclear Drills After Putin-Trump Summit Delay
Putin directed drills testing Russia’s nuclear triad readiness with missile launches, coinciding with the postponed Trump summit amid ongoing diplomatic preparations, Kremlin said.
- Vladimir Putin oversaw a large-scale nuclear forces exercise involving land, sea, and air components to test readiness and command structure, according to the Kremlin.
- The exercise included a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launch from Plesetsk and a Sineva missile from a submarine in the Barents Sea.
- All assigned tasks during the exercise were completed, as stated by the Kremlin.
- Earlier, Russia terminated a bilateral agreement with the United States regarding weapons-grade plutonium disposal, impacting nuclear arms control.
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Moscow. Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, directed yesterday from his office in the Kremlin exercises by land, sea and air of his nuclear forces, hours after it was learned in the Russian capital that his US colleague, Donald Trump, decided to suspend the Budapest summit because he does not want to “lose time in a useless meeting,” alluding to the Kremlin’s inflexibility with regard to its demands to negotiate with Ukraine and rejects the ceas…
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