Juan Pablo Duch
Correspondent
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 30, 2024, p. 22
Moscow. With talks between Moscow and Washington stalled to try to extend the last strategic arsenal disarmament treaty still in force between them, START, which expires in 2026, Russia carried out a nuclear deterrence exercise yesterday, the core part of which consisted of launching ballistic missiles intercontinental and cruise ships located on land, air and sea.
According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, President Vladimir Putin supervised the task he ordered as commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces: respond with a massive nuclear strike to an enemy attack with atomic weaponswhose compliance was reported by the head of the portfolio, Andrei Belousov.
The minister explained that during the exercise a missile Yars fired from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, it traveled 6 thousand kilometers before hitting the Kura range, on the Kamchatka peninsula.
Likewise, Belousov reported that two atomic submarines launched missiles Bulava and Sineva from the Seas of Okhotsk and Barents, while strategic bombers (capable of carrying nuclear projectiles) fired cruise missiles.
The missions set for this exercise of our strategic deterrence forces were fully accomplished; the missiles, without exception, hit their targetsummarized the Minister of Defense, in the fragment broadcast on local television.
For his part, Putin was satisfied: Taking into account the increase in geopolitical tensions and the emergence of new external threats and risks, it is essential to have modern strategic forces ready to enter combat if necessary.he highlighted.
For the head of the Kremlin, the nuclear triad of this country, formed by intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic bombers and atomic submarines, is the best guarantee of Russia’s sovereignty and securitywhile emphasizing that The use of nuclear weapons is an exceptional measure, when there is no other option, to ensure security.
