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Putin Makes First Public Appearance In Many Days, Initiates Nationwide Show of Military Force
Reuters: Russia starts nationwide show of force
More than 45,000 Russian troops as well as war planes and submarines started military exercises across much of the country on Monday in one of the Kremlin's biggest shows of force since its ties with the West plunged to Cold War-lows.
President Vladimir Putin called the Navy's Northern Fleet to full combat readiness in exercises in Russia's Arctic North apparently aimed at dwarfing military drills in neighboring Norway, a NATO member.
"New challenges and threats to military security require the armed forces to further boost their military capabilities. Special attention must be paid to newly created strategic formations in the north," Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said, quoted by RIA news agency.
Shoigu said the order came from Putin, who has promised to spend more than 21 trillion rubles ($340 billion) by the end of the decade to overhaul Russia's fighting forces.
Putin made his first public appearance since March 5 on Monday, an absence from view that had fueled feverish speculation over his health as well as his grip on power. He was meeting Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev at the Constantine Palace outside Russia's second city of St. Petersburg.
Norway is currently holding its "Joint Viking" drills involving 5,000 troops in Finnmark county, which borders Russia in the resource-rich Arctic circle where both countries are vying for influence.
Russia's drills would include nearly 40,000 servicemen, 41 warships and 15 submarines, RIA reported.
- Nuke Isis
The Independent: Putin raises possibility of using nuclear weapons against terrorists - but hopes they ‘will never need’ them Leader says new cruise missiles can be equipped with nuclear warheads and conventional warheads Vladimir Putin has said...
- Escalation: Russia Fires Cruise Missiles Into Syria
From the Washington Post: MOSCOW — Russia’s Caspian Sea fleet on Wednesday launched a complex cruise missile strike against Syrian rebels from nearly 1,000 miles away, a potent exhibition of Moscow’s firepower as it backs a government offensive...
- Russki Defense Minister “i Have No Idea Where All Those Russian Military Vehicles In The Crimea Came From …the Idea That We Have Men There Is Complete Nonsense”
Yes, that’s right, now replacing Lewis Black, and LOUIS CK, on HBO’s ONE NIGHT STAND, Sergei Shoigu, Defense Minister of Russia!I have to tell you, I have been amazed that the American admin clearly has NO CLUE how they sound and look, but these...
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From Gateway Pundit: Russia, one of Assad’s biggest arms supplier, has deployed two warships to the east Mediterranean. The warships are currently in the North Atlantic and should be in the Mediterranean within a few days. On Monday,...
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