“Officials
in Moscow have announced plans to send some of their strategic
missile-carriers to Crimea a year after the peninsula separated from
Ukraine and rejoined the Russian Federation. A source in Russia’s
Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Moscow would deploy Tupolev 22-M3
bomber jets to Crimea as part of a drill to test the combat readiness
of tens of thousands of Russian troops across the country. The
source, however, did not specify an exact date for the deployment of
the bombers.”
“Russia
had previous plans for redeployment of the Tupolev bombers to Crimea,
a Black Sea peninsula which was used to support the Russian Navy
during the Soviet era. Moscow’s announcement comes as Crimea is
celebrating this week the first anniversary of its reunification with
the Russian Federation, which was decided in a referendum in March
2014 after a legal government in Kiev was toppled by anti-Russia
forces earlier in the year.”
“On
Sunday, Putin said in a documentary that since the very beginning of
the crisis in Ukraine, Moscow was ready to bring its nuclear weapons
into a state of alert.”
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