Assertion comes after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of attacking Vladimir Putin’s palace in Novgorod
Russia said its latest nuclear-capable missile system has been deployed in Belarus, a day after Moscow claimed that Ukraine had carried out a large-scale drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence.
Footage released by Russia’s ministry of defence showed the new Oreshnik missile trundling through a snowy forest. Soldiers were seen disguising combat vehicles with green netting and raising a flag at an airbase in eastern Belarus, close to the Russian border.
The video appeared part of a choreographed attempt to intimidate Europe and to prepare Russians for a further escalation in the already brutal war against Ukraine. The deployment, if true, would symbolically reduce the time it would take for a Russian missile to hit an EU capital.
Oh yeah, I would say like 70% of all of Putin’s posturing is for the domestic audience.
Putin knows the nuclear option is pretty much all they have left, so he’s going to rattle that saber as much as he can. I mean kinetically of course, because they do have very effective cyberwarfare operations, in addition to social media influence as their baseline threats.