Russian Armed Forces have begun a three-day set of drills “on the use of nuclear forces” in “the event of a threat of aggression”.
The exercise, which began on Tuesday and will run until Thursday, involves more than 64,000 military personnel and 7,800-plus units of equipment. It comes amid fresh warnings that Russia is planning an attack on the NATO member states in the Baltic region.
War games involving tactical nuclear weapons are now underway in Belarus, which borders alliance states Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Belarusian people have been banned from entering forests near the borders with Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine during these drills.
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War monitoring channel Volya warned that misinformation indicates Putin plans a summer offensive in Ukraine’s Donbas region while actually he is plotting a limited invasion of territory in the Baltic states in a major test to NATO.
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