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Russia’s military conducted a simulated nuclear strike in a drill Wednesday overseen by President Vladimir Putin, hours after the upper house of parliament voted to rescind the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban.

The bill to end ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, approved in the lower house last week, will now be sent to Putin for final approval. Putin has said that revoking Russia’s 2000 ratification would “mirror” the stance of the U.S., which signed but did not ratify the nuclear test ban.

State television showed Putin directing the exercise via video call with top military officials.

Russia’s Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu said the purpose of the drills is to practice “dealing a massive nuclear strike with strategic offensive forces in response to a nuclear strike by the enemy.”

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[–] BombOmOm 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Russia's saber rattling has gotten embarrassing. All they have left is to prattle about nukes and meaningless red lines, meanwhile they are losing massive quantities of troops and equipment against a country much smaller than them. Here are just the visually confirmed Russian losses in Ukraine. Every single one of the thousands of tanks and vehicles destroyed has it's own picture or video. Click them. It's mind-boggling.

[–] Donjuanme 17 points 1 year ago

Simulate as in when it's over they go back to their cushy jobs, then leave their standing office, drive down the lit and controlled streets to their houses.

Actual nuclear strike is none of the above.

Get fucked Russian war machine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Might as well simulate blowing their own brains out then because that's what a nuclear strike is in this case: a really, really horrible mass murder/suicide.

[–] drmoose 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's impressive how russia has zero real opposition. It's almost like a dictatorship or something.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

No not really. Vladimir Putin is just the best leader for Russia and has no opposition. That's why he got 120% of the vote next year.

Occasionally people have put their names forward but it's never turned into anything because they've always fallen out of the window in completely not suspicious circumstances. It's old but that's just how things are sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russian forces of simulated their response to a nuclear strike?

So they all just lay on the ground didn't they because that would be their response. Even if the Russian military will even moderately competent there isn't much there going to be able to do against an actual hit.

I know during the cold War everyone was told to hide under their desks but that's because everyone knows that plywood is an excellent radiation blocking material.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Putin has said that revoking Russia’s 2000 ratification would “mirror” the stance of the U.S., which signed but did not ratify the nuclear test ban.

While similar drills are held every autumn, Shoigu’s pointed comments came amid soaring tensions between Russia and the West over the fighting in Ukraine.

There are widespread concerns that Russia could move to resume nuclear tests to try to discourage the West from continuing to offer military support to Ukraine.

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said earlier this month that Moscow will continue to respect the ban and will only resume nuclear tests if Washington does it first.

Ryabkov said Wednesday that the Russian Foreign Ministry had received U.S. proposals to resume a dialogue on strategic stability and arms control issues, but noted that Moscow doesn’t consider it possible in the current political environment.

“We aren’t ready for it because the return to a dialogue on strategic stability ... as it was conducted in the past is impossible until the U.S. revises its deeply hostile policy course in relation to Russia,” Ryabkov told reporters in comments carried by Russian news agencies.


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