Putin Puts Russia’s Nuclear Deterrent Forces On High Alert

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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his defence chiefs to put the country’s nuclear “deterrence forces” on high alert.

He also accused the West of taking “unfriendly” steps against his country. The president said aggressive statements by high ranking NATO leaders and economic sanctions against Moscow were behind the decision.

Putin announced the move on state television during a meeting with Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov on Sunday.

Sky News Moscow correspondent Diana Magnay described the decision as an “incredibly dramatic, escalatory move”, which will “really, really worry people”.

“This is the first time that we’ve ever had a situation, in Putin’s reign at least, where he has put his nuclear forces ready essentially for combat duty, on high alert,” she said.

The move will heighten fears across the West that Russian forces could use nuclear weapons in the conflict with Ukraine.

A senior White House official described it as “yet another escalatory and totally unnecessary step”.

They said in a statement: “At every step of this conflict, Putin has manufactured threats to justify more aggressive actions.

“He was never under threat from Ukraine or from NATO, which is a defensive alliance that will not fight in Ukraine.

“The only reason his forces face a threat today is because they invaded a sovereign country, and one without nuclear weapons.”

Meanwhile Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sparked hopes of a diplomatic solution to the crisis by agreeing to talks with the Russians.

He had initially rejected the offer of negotiations in Minsk due to Belarus’s strategic links with the Kremlin.

But he has now agreed to talks on the border of the two nations, his office said on Sunday.

6 Comments

  1. Putin, you need to take out the command and control first, then you are done. House of rothschilds, warburgs, Collins, you know the lise. a few conventional hypersonic missiles well placed. the world will thank you.

  2. It’s history repeating England promised Hitler they had no interest in his European ambitions and wouldn’t interfere. The truth hasn’t yet come out about the back room bettors meetings that preceded this event. But already we know of the set ups, some of the set ups. And we know very well how Western media’s painted Putin very frequently as a sort of saintly saviour of the Christian world. How very instantly that image was reversed. As if waiting with anticipation to pounce. Hitler was known to have fallen onto deep shock, basically trauma,that lasted weeks, when England announced war against him. Completely reversing their promises to him. Rather like the Romanoffs were left distraught confused bewildered when the Americans left them to be butchered their “closest friends” who had set the war up promising they would be by their side all the way.And the truth is the Romanoffs would not have gone to war without that promise And further in fact if the telegram Nicky sent to Willy hadn’t been intentionally held back at the Post Office until after its stated deadlinedate and time hadn’t been passed, the war wouldn’t have happened that killed tens of millions It was all set up by deceits and lies and manipulations.

  3. Russia has been under threat since rhe French revolution. Anyway who doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand.
    Now the msm are deceiving their listeners into believing Putin acting defensively is an act of aggression. Typical. Just typical of the perversity of those who play by Saul Alisky, the Satanist, book, rules for radicals, which is all of them in control of the West.

  4. Break away puppet goverments stealing the food fuels and metal rights from the russian people.The russian common wealth vs the UK common wealth is being brain washed by the west into MADD vs MADD atomic clock at zero.WAVE the WHITE FLAG share the wealth with your mother landers and stay the fluct out of my face you sicko war mad lackys

  5. WTF send them weapons that the american tax payers must pay for WTF are you sicko dipsmitSS doing get real wave the white flag and elect a REAL goverment not hell bent on killing off all the poor around the world for your 1% lobby WAR lord brainless

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