Russia is preparing maneuvers involving the deployment and use of tactical nuclear weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Monday. It said the exercise would focus on ensuring Russia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty “in response to provocative statements and threats by some Western officials against the Russian Federation.”
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According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the planned maneuvers are a response to the statements of Western officials | Photo: Evgenia Novozhenina | Source: Reuters
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said it would be a response to statements by Western officials, including French President Emmanuel Macron, about the possible deployment of NATO troops to Ukraine, which Peskov said would mean pitting NATO troops against the Russian military.
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Macron repeatedly talks about the possible dispatch of Western ground troops to Ukraine, which has been resisting the Russian invasion for more than two years, but the opinion within the North Atlantic Alliance on such a step is not unanimous.
“If the Russians were to break through the front line, if there was a request from Ukraine, which is not the case today, we should legitimately ask this question (about aid),” Macron said in an interview with The Economist earlier this month. In an interview published by the Roman daily Il Messaggero on Monday, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto rejected the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine. In such a case, according to him, there is a risk “that we would embark on a path from which there is no return”.
Attitudes of the West
Similarly, in February, Macron caused a stir by saying that Western allies should not rule out sending troops to Ukraine. A number of countries, including the Czech Republic, immediately stated that they were not going to take such a step. On the contrary, some countries, especially from the eastern wing of NATO, supported the head of the Elysee Palace.
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In Monday’s statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense, there is no mention of exercises with missiles equipped with nuclear warheads, and it is not even clear where and when the maneuvers will take place, DPA noted. The newly announced exercise should take place with the participation of missile troops, the air force, the navy and soldiers from the Southern Military District, that is, especially the forces stationed near Ukraine, the AFP agency writes.
The war in Ukraine in February 2022 was started by the invasion of the Russian army, which was ordered by President Vladimir Putin with the argument that it was necessary to ensure the de-Nazification and demilitarization of the neighboring country. Since then, Moscow has repeatedly hinted at the possibility of retaliating with its nuclear weapons, and in March 2023 Putin announced that Russia would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, which also borders Ukraine.
Russia’s nuclear doctrine envisages the “strictly defensive” use of nuclear weapons in the event of an attack on Russia with weapons of mass destruction or in the event of an attack by conventional weapons that will “threaten the very existence of the state”.
edr, CTK
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