Russia’s army has started a three-day exercise on the preparation and deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus in a move that will no doubt spark fears of an imminent World War 3. The exercise, which begins today and runs until Thursday, involves over 200 missile launchers, 140 aircraft, 73 surface ships, and 13 submarines, according to a post on Telegram.
The exercises will focus on the readiness and use of nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus. The Strategic Missile Forces and long-range aviation will participate in the exercises. Belarusian people have been banned from entering forests near the borders with Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine during these drills.
“In reality, alarming signals specifically in this direction are becoming more and more frequent,” said Volya.
“Since mid-March, we have begun receiving confirmations from sources in the Russian Ministry of Defence and other structures that Vladimir Putin’s plans to invade the Baltic states have moved to the next stage.”
The aim “is not to start a war with NATO, but to trigger a major crisis within the alliance by invading Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and, ideally, bring about its effective fragmentation.”
A statement from the country’s military command said: “Russian forces carried out a new series of drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, in the vicinity of the river border with Romania, in Tulcea county.
“Two F-16 aircraft from the Air Police combat service took off at around 01.45 from the 86th Air Base in Fetești.”
