The Russian Defense Ministry has carried out the practice of its strategic deterrent forces, which included the test launches of cruise and intercontinental ballistic missiles from air, sea, and land platforms.
The ministry released details of the nuclear exercises, stating that bombers, submarines, and ground-based missile carriers participated in the strategic missile exercises.
“The practice of Russia’s strategic deterrent forces, which involved test launches of cruise and intercontinental ballistic missiles from air, sea, and land platforms, was conducted,” the defense ministry said.
🔴 The exercises were announced by President Vladimir Putin just days after NATO conducted its own nuclear exercises in Western Europe.
During the command and control exercise, the armed forces are tasked with carrying out the tasks of causing a massive nuclear strike with strategic deterrent forces in response to a hostile nuclear attack,” said Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov on Tuesday.
According to the ministry’s statement, during the exercises, an intercontinental ballistic missile Jar was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome to the Kamchatka Kura testing range.
“The Sineva and Bulava ballistic missiles were launched from the Novomoskovsk nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine in the Barents Sea and the Knyaz Oleg nuclear-powered submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk,” the ministry added.
“Tu-95MS long-range bombers also took part in the exercise, launching cruise missiles,” the ministry added.
The exercises were controlled from the National Defense Control Center and aimed at checking the readiness level of the strategic deterrent forces.
“All objectives were fully met, and every missile reached its target,” the statement concluded.
Putin previously stated on Tuesday regarding the exercises that nuclear weapons are an “extreme, exceptional measure to ensure the security of the state.”
He also revealed that the strategic deterrent forces will soon receive new and modernized missile launchers, submarines, and bombers.
