Russia starts exercise to simulate launch of tactical nuclear weapons

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : It is aimed at ensuring that units and equipment are ready for "the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and unconditionally ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the Russian state in response to provocative statements and threats of individual Western officials against the Russian Federation", the ministry said.
47% : Russian service members are seen atop an Iskander missile launching system capable of carrying a nuclear warhead during the first stage of military drills, involving practical training in the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons, at an unknown location in Russia's Southern Military District, in this still image taken from video released May 21, 2024.
46% : Some Western analysts believe non-strategic nuclear weapons have acquired greater importance in Moscow's thinking since the start of the war in Ukraine, where its conventional forces struggled in the first two years.

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