Russia and Belarus start second stage of tactical nuclear drills, ministry says

Above, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, left, and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 12, 2024. (AFP file photo)
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Updated 11 June 2024
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Russia and Belarus start second stage of tactical nuclear drills, ministry says

  • Drills aimed at ensuring two countries’ military personnel and equipment are ready to protect sovereignty and territorial integrity

MOSCOW: Russian and Belarusian troops have started the second stage of tactical nuclear drills in Russia, Russia’s defense ministry said on Tuesday.
The ministry said the drills were aimed at ensuring that the two countries’ military personnel and equipment were ready to protect their sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“During the exercise, issues of joint training of units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons will be worked out,” the defense ministry said.


Trump says “it will be done” on getting “Russian threat” away from Greenland

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Trump says “it will be done” on getting “Russian threat” away from Greenland

US President Donald ​Trump said on Sunday that Denmark has not been able to do anything to get the “Russian threat” away from Greenland, and said, “Now it is time, and it will be done!!!“
“NATO has been telling Denmark, for ‌20 years, ‌that “you have to get Russian ‌threat ⁠away ​from ‌Greenland.” Unfortunately, Denmark has been unable to do anything about it,” Trump wrote in a post on the social media website he owns called Truth Social.
The White House, the Danish Presidency in ⁠the European Union, and Denmark’s foreign affairs ministry did ‌not immediately respond to a ‍Reuters’ request ‍for comment.
Trump has repeatedly insisted he ‍will settle for nothing less than ownership of Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
Leaders of both Denmark and Greenland have insisted the island ​is not for sale and does not want to be part ⁠of the United States.
Trump on Saturday vowed to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States is allowed to buy Greenland.
The encroaching presence of China and Russia makes Greenland vital to US security interests, Trump has said. Danish and other European officials have pointed out that Greenland is ‌already covered by NATO’s collective security pact.