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Putin Flexes Russia’s Nuclear Muscles, Launching Missile Drills Simulating a Retaliatory Strike

Drill conducted amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
On October 29, 2024, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired from the Plesetsk launchpad in northwestern Russia. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
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MOSCOW — President Putin on Tuesday launched a huge exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, flexing the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.

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