Putin watches as his military prepares for Armageddon in simulated ‘massive nuclear strike’

Vladimir Putin watched today as Russia simulated a “massive nuclear strike” by practicing ballistic and cruise missile launches.

The despot remotely watched the annual exercises, called Grom or Grom, which use test launches to test Moscow’s nuclear forces in a show of force to deter and intimidate enemies.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Putin that the drills were intended to simulate a retaliatory “massive nuclear strike.” Russia.

The launch of Russia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile took place during exercises of the country’s Strategic Nuclear Forces at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome

Russia’s Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the Tula nuclear submarine during today’s exercise

The exercises included the launch of the Sineva ICBM by a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea

The maneuvers took place after Putin warned that he was ready to use “all available means” to repel attacks on Russian territory, citing the country’s nuclear arsenal.

Wednesday’s exercises included a test launch of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from the northern Plysetsk launch site and the launch of the Sineva ICBM by a Russian nuclear-powered submarine in the Barents Sea.

As part of the exercises, Tu-95 strategic bombers also launched cruise missiles for training purposes.

The Kremlin said that all the tasks set during the exercises were completed, all the missiles that were tested reached their targets.

Such exercises, with land, sea and air components, are held annually to train the country’s nuclear forces and demonstrate their combat readiness.

The Biden administration said on Tuesday that Russia had indicated its intention to conduct a routine exercise to test its nuclear capabilities.

Wednesday’s exercise included tests of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile

The Russian despot watched the exercises from the Kremlin as the country’s strategic nuclear forces practiced multiple launches of ballistic and cruise missiles

The Pentagon and the US State Department said Russia had complied with the terms of the latest US-Russian arms control agreement by notifying Washington of the upcoming tests.

The Russian exercises come amid warnings from Moscow about an alleged plot by Ukraine to detonate a radioactive device, widely known as a “dirty bomb”, in a false flag attack to blame Russia.

Ukraine and its allies strongly reject these accusations.

There are fears that Russia is making the claims because the Kremlin plans to use the deadly device, which uses explosives to disperse radioactive waste.

At a meeting with intelligence representatives of the CIS countries, Putin said that the West is “pumping” Ukraine with heavy weapons, adding: “It is also planned to use the so-called “dirty bomb” for provocations.

Today, Shaigu called his colleagues in India and China to convey Moscow’s concern about the alleged Ukrainian plan.

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He expressed Moscow’s concern about “possible Ukrainian provocations with the use of a “dirty bomb” in a conversation with his Indian colleague Rajnath Singh and Chinese Wei Fenghe, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The talks followed calls by Shaigu to his British, French, Turkish and American counterparts on Sunday, in which he did the same. Britain, France and the US rejected the claim as “manifestly false”.

Although the West rejected Russia’s claims, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted that “we have information that preparations for such a terrorist attack continue in Ukraine.”

“We will continue to vigorously inform the world community about what we know in order to convince it to take measures to prevent such irresponsible actions of the regime in Kyiv,” Piaskov told reporters.

Moscow also aired its accusations at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, voicing its concerns during a closed-door meeting.

A broken car can be seen in the city of Balaklia, liberated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine

A view of a damaged gas station after Russian missile strikes on the Dnieper in Ukraine

Russia has not released the evidence it claims it has, but says it has prepared its troops to operate in the face of nuclear contamination.

Her deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitrii Polyansky, told reporters after the Council meeting that she had been passing on intelligence to Western colleagues with the “necessary level of clearance.”

Britain’s deputy ambassador to the UN, James Kariuki, called the allegations “pure Russian disinformation, which we have seen many times before.”

Russia has struck more than 40 villages around Ukraine over the past day, Ukrainian officials said Wednesday, killing at least two people and fueling terror that forces people into battle shelters every night.

Russian troops fired five rockets, 30 airstrikes and more than 100 rocket launchers at Ukrainian targets, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

An overview of the destruction in the recaptured territory in the north of the Kharkiv region during the Russian-Ukrainian war

On Zestafoni Street in the Zaporozhye Region, residents are cleaning up rubble damaged by the fighting

A Ukrainian official said on Wednesday that as a result of a Russian attack on a gas station in the city of Dnipro, two people were killed, including a pregnant woman.

Governor of Dnipropetrovs’ka region, Valyantyn Reznichenko, said that four injured people were hospitalized.

Mykolaiv, a southern port city close to the front lines of the war, is among the places where residents have been queuing to receive rations of bread and canned goods as rising food prices and lost incomes add to the wartime burden on Ukraine’s low-income families .

Several buildings and areas were shelled in Mykolaiv on Tuesday, however, according to local authorities, it is still unclear whether there are any casualties.

Early Wednesday morning, the rockets continued.

The only food distribution point in Mykolaiv allows everyone to receive free bread once every three days. Many people have to walk long distances to collect essential products for their families.