Russia has postponed large-scale nuclear exercises to February due to the situation with Ukraine. This publication reports Financial Times citing a congressional source RBC.
According to the FT, such an opinion was expressed at a closed briefing in the House of Representatives by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CNS) of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley, and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes. The publication notes that usually nuclear exercises in Russia, including tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles, are held in the fall. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to move them to the beginning of the year as a warning to NATO, according to the United States.
Earlier in February, 19FortyFive writers James Ragland and Adam Lowther suggested that Russia could detonate a tactical atomic bomb in front of advancing NATO forces. According to observers, the United States, unlike Russia, does not have such nuclear weapons directly “on the battlefield.”
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