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.
20 Comments
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 259d
yawn
Glory to Ukraine. Fuck Putin.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 259d
Whatever.
zd9@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 259d
Biggest false flag I've ever seen in order to mobilize and deploy their nuclear weapons
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 259d
As if THIS TIME we're going to be scared into believing their busted nukes are about to launch. This is for Russia's domestic audience. If Russia used nukes on Ukraine the blowback would end Putin. Putin knows this which is why it hasn't happened.
zd9@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 258d
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.
HowRu68@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 259d
Same difference (nti):
In February 2022, Belarus amended its constitution to allow Russia to deploy nuclear weapons on Belarussian territory. Russia deployed dozens of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus at the end of 2023, and placed Belarus under its nuclear umbrella.
wax@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 258d
....ella..ella (sorry)
Rooty@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 258d
Ay ay ay
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 258d
Odd thing to do with the peace talks and all
ryannathans@aussie.zone · -1 pts · 258d
Attack the president's residence?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 258d
It's on the title.
frongt@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 258d
What? Inconceivable! I don't believe you. Prove it, with GPS or GLONASS coordinates. Your choice.
minorkeys@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 259d
As if the two things have any relationship at all...
Inucune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 258d
Given the destroyed launch sites and that most of Russia's rocket fuels turned into water from neglect... Not too worried.
flandish@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 259d
cool. hope they use it.
DrunkenLullabies@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 259d
Odd way to admit that you support innocents being murdered
flandish@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 259d
i’m just done. with all of this timeline.
RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 258d
Exactly. I just got permabanned from Reddit for telling a Russian asshole who bragged about 5000 nukes that he should stop being a pussy and just do it. Push the button and become history's footnote, the country that destroyed humanity, moments before they get turned to ash. I'm so sick of this blustering, seriously shit or get off the pot.
That country is filled with self-aggrandizing assholes who invaded a sovereign country they promised to protect. They have an economy smaller than Italy and Canada. They're hateful, boastful, self-important shitheels. I'm so bored of their games and I truly don't believe they have the minerals to back up anything they say. I call their bluff.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 258d
You don’t have to continue in this timeline. But there are others who do, want to fight for their lives and continue to exist.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 258d
Sounds like a you problem, leave the rest of us the fuck alone please.