10/13/2022
RawNews1st – NATO plans big exercise starting next week in western Europe. Officials say Russia hasn’t shifted its nuclear arsenal.
The drills come as Russia steps up its missile attacks on Ukraine, nearly eight months into its invasion and as its troops struggle to make headway on the ground. Putin has recently moved to annex parts of Ukraine, and is mobilizing as many as 300,000 Russian reservists.
The difficulties facing Russia’s military in Ukraine have raised concerns that Putin could yet resort to some sort of nuclear strike, although US and European officials say they have detected no change in Moscow’s nuclear posture or any unusual movement of its atomic stocks.
“What I can say is that this exercise, the Russian exercise is an annual exercise, an exercise where they test their nuclear forces,” he told reporters Thursday in Brussels. “We will monitor that as we always do.”
Russia has conducted other military drills since its invasion of Ukraine, and they were not a prelude to bigger action against Kyiv.
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