DAILY STAR
Thousands of troops from Vladimir Putin’s nuclear missile forces were today engaged in exercises involving the “highest degrees of combat readiness”, adding to growing WW3 fears.
The exercises in the Sverdlovsk region included 3,000 soldiers and deadly Yars thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles on mobile launchers, and footage of the start of the Tagil Rocket Division drills was released by Russian defence ministry TV channel Zvezda.
The practive involves “manoeuvres on combat patrol routes” in the Ural Mountains and ways to combat Western air attacks on the nuclear weapons
They are also carrying out their tasks during “active electronic suppression and intensive actions of saboteurs”.