Russian President Vladimir Putin has kicked off the Kremlin ‘situation room’ for planned military and strategic missile maneuvers in Russia, in the midst of the escalation on Ukraine. With him, in the situation room, also the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko. The exercises involve the army, air force, the Northern and Black Sea fleets with their submarines armed with nuclear missiles, and strategic missile forces, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov recalls.
Putin’s oversight, according to Peskov, is needed when strategic and cruise missiles are involved. “Such launch tests are obviously impossible without the head of state.
You know of the famous black briefcase with the red button “with the codes that give the command for a nuclear attack, recalled the presidential spokesman.
Source: Ansa
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