Press TV – May 5, 2022
Russia has simulated nuclear-capable missile strikes in the western enclave of Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea, in a potential signal to the West, which has been heavily backing Ukraine, and an indication of how the conflict in Ukraine could escalate.
In a statement on Wednesday, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that Moscow had simulated “electronic launches” of nuclear-capable Iskander mobile ballistic missile systems during military maneuvers in Kaliningrad, situated between Poland and Lithuania.
It said Russian forces had conducted single and multiple strikes at mock enemy missile launchers, airfields, protected infrastructure, military equipment, and command posts.
After performing the launches, the military personnel carried out a maneuver to change their position in order to avoid “a possible retaliatory strike,” the ministry added.
The combat units also practiced “actions in conditions of radiation and chemical contamination,” it said.
More than 100 service members were involved in the drill.
According to observers, Russia’s state television has in recent days been trying to make the use of nuclear weapons more acceptable to the public. “For two weeks now, we have been hearing from our television screens that nuclear silos should be opened,” Russian newspaper editor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov said on Tuesday.
Russian strike on Azovstal, Ukraine. Click to enlarge
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the military offensive in Ukraine on February 24. Even though he put the country’s nuclear deterrence forces on “high alert” shortly afterwards, talk of the use of nuclear weapons has been limited until recently, especially as nuclear-capable Western countries, especially the United States, reject the prospect of nuclear war or even the idea that the conflict in Ukraine is pitting the West against Russia.
But a growing flow of sophisticated military weapons and other support from the West into Ukraine has ratcheted up the tensions. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that the US had been providing Ukraine with intelligence to help kill Russian generals.
Russia has also warned of a quick-fire military response to any country that intervenes in Moscow’s military offensive against Ukraine..
The conflict in Ukraine has killed thousands of people and displaced more than 13 million, creating the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II.
So, so disappointing. Why not announce that these missiles were aimed at NATO population centres?
Balaclava?
I’m sure more than a few historians had their antenna’s pop up when they heard that old name. Road the gallant 600 and all that.
I hope Brits and Americans and all the other 5 eye nations read their Tennyson and know the meaning of futile gestures by now. The original Balaclava was the Ottomans and the Russians together. This time we’ve inflicted the Ottomans on ourselves, and the Russians are wondering how nuts we intend to go before we wake up?
I hope we can assure the Russians there are still sane among us.
In an era of technology..I havent seen one filming of the alleged “intense” fighting going on .. just photos of smoke and firemen putting out fire…you tell me whats going on?? it’s all staged to cull the sheeple!!! wake up now or sleep forever…
It cannot be called a refugee “crisis” when we have a constant flow of people all into White Man countries to destroy them for the jealous Jew.
The plan is to drag out the war & exterminate thousands/millions of Aryan Ukrainians in a new Holodomor via slaying/starvation–if that also entails dropping a nuke or more on white populated regions then Judeo-Communist Putin & Boris Siegel’s ‘World Without Nazism’ program will gleefully do that too..
It may well be message to the West, but unfortunately, no-one is listening. The West is controlled by lunatics.
beppe: in case you didn’t know, Russian military cannot carry smartphones or cameras. I am sure the Russian military will have official film crews, and they will have live strategic feeds to the Kermlin and command centers in Russia.
There are video and images from the fighting if you look for them. Most of the stuff turned out by UKraine and the West is faked propaganda. There’s been no significant Russian escalation in the Dombas, beyond standard Russian tactics, so this means the Reds are giving the yellow and blues a good kicking.
“I hope we can assure the Russians there are still sane among us.”
Where? If you were sane then you’d be doing something to fight back, not watching it all fall apart on dumb tube. Sane people would be taking out the vomit in charge one by one, day by day, until there are none left. Yeah, I’ve heard all the excuses, and I’m not fooled for one second: you’re scared, weak and useless, and you’re desperately hoping someone else will do it for you.