Putin Oversees Russian Nuclear Forces’ Drills Amid Growing International Tensions

Published on October 29, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw a set of nuclear arms drills on Oct. 29, amid growing Western concerns he will escalate the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war. The Kremlin announced Putin observed the Tuesday nuclear training drills, which included ballistic and cruise missile test launches. The drills entailed tests of all three components of Russia’s nuclear triad. Russian land-based missile forces fired a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from Plesetsk State Test Cosmodrome in western Russia to the Kura test site in Russia’s eastern Kamchatka region. The nuclear-powered strategic missile submarine Novomoskovsk launched ballistic missiles in the Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, while the nuclear-powered submarine Knyaz Oleg also conducted a launch from the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia’s Pacific Coastline....

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