Russia has tested ballistic missiles
On Saturday, Russia tested missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons. President Vladimir Putin oversaw military research, and aviation news again warned that they believed Moscow expected to invade Ukraine in the coming days.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, arrived in Germany to rally the support of Western allies, despite a significant amount of shelling resulting in the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers.
Harsh US exclusions and the evacuation of civilians due to the presence of separatist regions of Ukraine in Russia have brought the dangers of a major conflict in Europe to the limit after weeks of crisis in relations between Russia and the West.
The Kremlin is making low demands on its neighbor, which has angered Moscow by seeking closer ties with NATO and the alliance.
But Moscow is doing nothing to alleviate fears because the media is accusing Kiev of alleged attacks on a major separatist pro-Russian enclave producing Ukraine.
Russian television showed its features of Vladimir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko, sitting behind representatives of the situational territory of the Kremlin in front of numerous screens, using which they could observe the progress of tests of modern hypersonic, cruise and nuclear missiles.
“All the missiles have set their targets, confirmed their performance,” the Kremlin said, suggesting that Tu-95 bombers and submarines participated in the exercise.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke about nuclear weapons codes.
“Such test launches, of course, are impossible without the head of state. You know about the famous black suitcase and red clothes,” he said.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that virtually all branches of the armed forces are involved in the exercises, including special forces missile forces, as well as the Northern and Black Sea Fleets, which have nuclear submarines.
With an estimated 150,000 US troops on the borders with Ukraine (as many as 190,000, including Russia’s use of separatist volumes in production), Moscow has already decided to invade.
Some Russian forces, some 30,000 troops, are in Belarus to participate in exercises that are due to close on Sunday. Moscow has said the forces will be turned into barracks, but US intelligence fears they could take part in an invasion of Ukraine.
President Joe Biden said on Friday that he is confident that Putin will get in on the invasion, despite being hit by Western sanctions, and attacks that could happen in the coming days to places, including the capture of Kiev.
On Saturday, during a visit to Lithuania, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said that Russian forces “are now hitting hard” and “are moving forward to assess the position in order to be able to attack.”
In recent days, Russia has announced the start of a rally of its troops from the territory near Ukraine, saying that they are taking part in regular military exercises and accusing the West of “hysteria” with claims of invading aircraft.
But Putin has also bled his rhetoric out, demanding written assurances that Ukraine will never be allowed to join NATO and that the US-led military alliance has reasserted its position in Eastern Europe to a position it held a few years ago.
Along the unstable front line between the Ukrainian army and the separatists, depending on the Moscow region in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, there is a “sharp increase” in the individual fire intensity regime, the declared range of observers from sensations.
Hundreds of artillery and mortar attacks have been reported in recent days in a move that has raged for eight years and has claimed more than 14,000 lives.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces blamed the rebels for another heavy wave of attacks on Saturday, saying dozens of firefights had taken place by the 7:00 a.m. time change and one soldier had died from shrapnel wounds.
The soldier, a captain in an intelligence unit, became the fourth Ukrainian soldier to die in the first weeks of 7 this year. According to statistics, at least 66 people were killed in 2021.
The separatists, who also blamed Ukrainian forces for the new attacks on Saturday, announced a general mobilization in two regions, calling on men to fight after they announced a massive evacuation of women and children in Russia.
The governor of the neighboring region announced the announcement of the first thousand buses, with the exception of the district.
Moscow and the separatists accused Kiev of planning an assault to retake the regions. Ukraine categorically rejects these assessments.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, which is investigating the incidents, said it had launched an investigation into reports that a release of languid troops by Ukrainian forces exploded about a kilometer from the border in Russia’s Rostov region.
Earlier, the Russian news agency, citing anonymous sources, reported that the incidence in the area, but did not cause any injury or damage.
Despite the absence of intrusions, Zelensky’s office said he would not change plans for personal risk at Saturday’s Munich Security Conference.
“Vladimir Zelensky is waiting for concrete agreements on the supply of future military and financial support to our country,” he said in his office that he expects in Kiev later on Saturday.