RUSSIA AND BELARUS IN NUCLEAR DRILL-Russia sends nuclear munitions to field storage facilities in Belarus as part of major nuclear drills
Russia’s Defence Ministry said the country has delivered nuclear munitions to field storage facilities in Belarus as part of major nuclear drills. The three-day exercise, which started on Tuesday, is taking place across Russia and Belarus.
Russia said the missile unit in Belarus was carrying out training to receive special munitions for the mobile Iskander-M tactical missile system, including loading munitions onto launch vehicles and secretly moving to a designated area for launch preparation.
The Iskander-M, a mobile guided missile system code-named “SS-26 Stone” by NATO, replaced the Soviet “Scud.” Its guided missiles have a range of up to 500 km (300 miles) and can carry conventional or nuclear warheads.
The Kremlin slammed remarks by Lithuania’s top diplomat as “verging on insanity” on Wednesday after Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys said NATO had to show Moscow it was capable of penetrating the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
