Vladimir Putin has ordered the Ministry of Defence to conduct testing of nuclear weapons in response to “Western aggression.”
The non-strategical nuclear weapons exercises are to protect the sovereignty of the Russian Federation which will take place in the “near future.”
The Russian Ministry of Defence said the nuclear weapons test are “in response to provocative statements and threats by individual Western officials against the Russian Federation.”
This comes after the British Foreign Secretary Lord David Cameron gave Ukraine permission to use UK weapons inside Russia.
The French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he will not exclude sending French troops into Ukraine if Russia breaks through the frontlines.
The Kremlin has said that this is dangerous and is “escalating tensions” between Moscow and NATO which is “unprecedented and requires special measures.”
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The ministry was quoted by Russian media as saying, “On instructions from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in order to increase the readiness of non-strategic nuclear forces to carry out combat missions, the General Staff has begun preparations for holding exercises in the near future with missile formations of the Southern Military District with the involvement of aviation, as well as naval forces.”
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, warned, “The chorus of irresponsible scoundrels among the Western political elite calling for troops to be sent to a non-existent country is growing.
“Now it includes representatives of the US Congress, French and British leadership, and individual madmen from the Baltic states and Poland.
“They also call for the active use of their missile weapons, which they supplied to the Banderaites, throughout Russia. And this is not a spring aggravation, but a cynical calculation for political dividends.
“There is some kind of total degradation of the ruling class in the West. This class really does not want to logically connect elementary things.
“Sending your troops to the territory of Ukraine will entail the direct entry of their countries into the war, to which we will have to respond. And, alas, not in the territory of Ukraine.
“In this case, none of them will be able to hide either on Capitol Hill, or in the Elysee Palace, or in 10 Downing Street.
“A world catastrophe will come.
“By the way, Kennedy and Khrushchev were able to understand this more than 60 years ago. But the current infantile morons who have seized power in the West do not want to understand.
“And that is why today the General Staff began preparations for the exercises, including activities for practical testing of the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.”
