Russia begins major military exercise that West fears is cover for attacking Ukraine
Source: MSN/Washington Post
Russian forces on Thursday will begin 10 days of military exercises with Belarus, Kyiv’s Moscow-friendly neighbor, in what Western officials fear could be cover for a renewed invasion of Ukraine.
Top Russian military commanders flew into Belarus on Wednesday for the maneuvers, which involve thousands of troops and sophisticated weapons systems including S-400 surface-to-air missiles, Pantsir air defense systems and Su-35 fighter jets. A day earlier, Russian warships sailed toward the Black Sea for an exercise that puts them within range of Ukraine’s long southern coastline.
Officials in Moscow and Minsk have said Russian troops will withdraw after the exercises. But U.S. and European security officials are not convinced.
Russian officials, who deny they have plans to attack Ukraine, continue to blame the United States and NATO for driving up tensions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia was staging the joint exercises with Belarus to combat “unprecedented security threats … the nature and, perhaps, concentration of which are, unfortunately, much larger and much more dangerous than before.”
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"Russian officials, who deny they have plans to attack Ukraine, continue to blame the United States and NATO for driving up tensions."
Russian projectionism never ceases to amaze me. They never do anything wrong.
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what is striking is that in the last election he threatened Google and Apple, where-by the opposition party could have voted using there platforms to vote for Navalny's supporters and he blackmailed them to shut down the app, and now look where the world is....a very small man with nuclear weapons blackmailing everyone that comes across him.... and since he is doing this I still think there is link as to why he is doing this, so that he can in some ways deflect and provide cover for the asshole living in Mar A Lago , since they are joined at the hip, and have been for some time.....just my rant...
