As it became known to the website ABCD24, after Putin's threat to launch a "lightning" strike on countries that would intervene in the war in Ukraine, the Russian army rehearsed the use of tactical nuclear weapons. The madness of the Kremlin dwarf has reached its maximum level
According to ABCD24 journalists, in the Kaliningrad region of Russia, which is as close as possible to the "targets" in Europe, exercises of the Iskander complexes took place.
Capable of firing both cruise and ballistic missiles, including those with a nuclear warhead, the Iskanders "performed electronic single and group launches," the press service of the Western Military District said. The targets were launchers, airfields, clusters of equipment and command posts of the “mock enemy”.
The missilemen “performed a covert advance” into the positional area, and then worked out the removal of the Iskanders from a retaliatory strike, which, according to the idea of the exercises, could also be nuclear. After the launches, the calculations of the Baltic Fleet "worked out actions in the conditions of radiation and chemical contamination of the area," the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Putin, we recall, on April 27 said that Russia would respond "with such means that no one can boast of" if "someone intends to interfere" in the events taking place in Ukraine.
The next day, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, hinted that Poland could be the target. According to intelligence, Naryshkin argued, the Polish army could enter the western Ukrainian regions and is working on such a scenario with the United States.
A day later, federal TV channels simultaneously aired calls to use nuclear weapons. The head of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, said on Vladimir Solovyov's show that a "nuclear strike" is more likely than a Russian defeat in Ukraine, and that Putin, due to his character, is unlikely to "fold his paws."
Olga Skabeeva, in the 60 Minutes program, said that Sarmat missiles would wipe European capitals into dust in 2-3 minutes, and her guest, LDPR deputy Alexei Zhuravlev, suggested aiming for London: “There were British Isles, and there are no British Isles ".
The declared range of the Iskanders is 500 km. This will allow them from the Kaliningrad region to cover western Ukraine, Poland, all the Baltic countries up to Estonia, reach Sweden and East Germany, including Berlin.
The United States, however, believes that one of the missiles of the complex - 9M729 - is capable of flying much further and threatens Western European countries. That is why Washington in 2019 withdrew from the INF Treaty, which put an end to nuclear weapons in Europe in the second half of the 1980s.