Russia begins exercises for battlefield nuclear weapons, pointing to Western 'threats'

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53% : The Russian Ministry of Defense published a video Tuesday of troops practicing affixing missiles and warheads onto fighter jets on the backs of armored trucks equipped with missile firing systems.
53% : "The ongoing exercise is aimed at maintaining the readiness of personnel and equipment of units for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons to respond and in order to 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 Russian Ministry of Defense said in the release on Telegram.

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