Russia successfully test-fires its latest hypersonic, cruise and nuclear-capable ballistic missiles as part of 'planned exercises' – Kremlin
The drills included Russia's Black and North Sea navies, as well as the country's strategic forces, the Kremlin said.
"The main objective of these exercises is to perfect the performance of our strategic offensive forces, with the aim of delivering a guaranteed strike against the enemy," chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin in televised comments. The drills included Russia's Black and North Sea navies, as well as the country's strategic forces, the Kremlin said. Sending a message
"The signal to the West is not so much 'don't interfere', but instead designed to say that the problem is not Ukraine and actually much wider," Dmitry Stefanovich, a research fellow at the IMEMO RAS think tank, told Reuters.
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