FT: Russia postponed nuclear exercises to February due to the situation around Ukraine
Russia postponed large-scale nuclear exercises to February due to the situation with Ukraine. This is reported by the Financial Times with reference to a source in Congress, RBC reports.
According to the FT, this opinion was expressed at a closed briefing in the House of Representatives by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (KNSH) U.S. Armed Forces General Mark Milley and Director of National Intelligence Evril Haines. The publication notes that usually nuclear exercises in Russia, including tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles, are held in the fall. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to postpone them to the beginning of the year as a warning to NATO, according to the United States.
Earlier in February, the authors of the American edition of 19FortyFive, James Ragland and Adam Lowther, admitted that Russia could detonate a tactical atomic bomb in front of the advancing NATO forces. According to observers, the United States, unlike Russia, does not have such nuclear weapons directly "on the battlefield."
