Putin monitors strategic nuclear exercises with ballistic missiles

Along with his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, Putin began drills planned with ballistic missiles shortly before 5:30 in the morning.

While Western countries are afraid of the beginning of one of the worst conflicts since the Cold War, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russian forces were beginning to become <x0); and to approach” on the border with the former Soviet neighbour.

“We hope that he will withdraw from the conflict threshold,” he said at a press conference during a visit to Lithuania, saying an invasion of Ukraine was not inevitable, Reuters writes, broadcast Klankosova.tv.

Russia ordered the military's establishment, while demanding that NATO stop Ukraine's membership in the alliance, but says predictions that it is planning to invade Ukraine are wrong and dangerous. He says he is now stepping down, while Washington and the allies insist the risk is on the rise.