Russia has intensified their bombardment with massive nuclear forces drills involving 64,000 troops, over 200 missile launchers, and strategic submarines as Ukraine prevailed with long-range drone and missile strikes deep inside Russian territory, and infrastructures.
The exercises come amid fears a cornered Vladimir Putin could lash out at the West amid his increasingly evident failure in the current war with his neighbour.
Some analysts believe he could stage a provocation against NATO, perhaps in the Baltic republics, which has the potential to escalate to a World War III.
Dramatic footage shows the Bastion system known as a ‘ship–killer on wheels’ striking supersonic anti–ship Oniks missiles from the coast.
‘The Northern Fleet conducted an exercise involving combined forces to destroy enemy naval groups in the Barents Sea,’ said a fleet statement.’
At certain stages of the exercise, a Tu–142 anti–submarine aircraft, Su–24M bombers, MiG–29K carrier–based fighters, as well as Tu–22M3 missile carriers and an Il–78 tanker aircraft, were involved.’
The frigate Admiral Golovko fired a Kalibr cruise missile, while the guided–missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov unleashed a Vulkan cruise missile.
The nuclear–powered guided–missile submarine Oryol struck with three Granit cruise missiles.
