Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials.

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine.

After summoning the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry, Moscow warned that Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory with U.K.-supplied weapons could bring retaliatory strikes against British military facilities and equipment on Ukrainian soil or elsewhere.

The remarks came on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inauguration to a fifth term in office and in a week when Moscow on Thursday will celebrate Victory Day, its most important secular holiday, marking its defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    50·
    6 months ago

    The Russian navy does not seem to have a defense against explody things in the water. It seems like an oversight, but I’m not a military strategist.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      They’re still following their WWII and czarist military doctrine of “we have more people and resources than you”. It’s a shame that Russian military leadership will forever be associated with this instead of having a second chance to demonstrate the actual might and strategy of Trotsky’s red army.

      It sometimes seems like being in power in Russia destroys your ability to have sensible military strategy

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        6 months ago

        You don’t rise in the ranks of the Russian military by being competent, you rise by kissing enough asses and having the right connections.