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The Washington Post reports:
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday put nuclear deterrent forces onto high alert, in response to sanctions and what he called “aggressive statements” from the West against Russia.
It’s a major escalation of tensions with NATO after Western nations announced plans to restrict the Russian central bank from its foreign currency reserves and cut off certain Russian banks from the SWIFT payment system.
“Top officials of the leading NATO countries also allow aggressive statements against our country,” Putin said at a Kremlin meeting Sunday, as he ordered Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov to put the nuclear deterrence forces into “special combat duty.”
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Putin orders Russia’s nuclear deterrence forces be put on high alert in TV address: “I order the defence minister and the chief of the general staff of the Russian armed forces to put the deterrence forces of the Russian army into a special mode of combat service.”
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) February 27, 2022
BREAKING: Putin has ordered Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch, raising the threat that the tensions could boil over into a nuclear war
https://t.co/SaVynFHZUN— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2022
An isolated dictator threatens nuclear war after his ground troops meet resistance from a non-NATO country after only four days of fighting. Putin puts the world at its most dangerous nuclear posture since the Cuban Missile Crisis. https://t.co/mCMJT3dazM
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) February 27, 2022