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There are constant checks and lie-detector tests for everyone,
Anton said, offering rare insight into the pervasive paranoia and surveillance on a Russian nuclear base There might be some old-fashioned types of weapons in some areas, but the country has an enormous nuclear arsenal, a huge amount of warheads, including constant combat patrol on land, sea and air.”
We were ready to launch the forces into the sea and air and, in theory, carry out a nuclear strike.”
It's one thing to use these weapons within Ukraine's 1991 borders,
Before that, we had only exercises. But on the day the war started, the weapons were fully in place,
says the former officer in the Russian nuclear forces They said that Ukrainian civilians are combatants and should be destroyed!”
All we had was Russian state TV, ... I didn’t really know what it all meant. I automatically carried out my duties. We weren’t fighting in the war, we were just guarding the nuclear weapons.”
We had constant training exercises. Our reaction time was two minutes,
he says, with a hint of pride It was my responsibility to ensure the soldiers under me didn’t take any phones on to the nuclear base,
There is a very strict selection process there. Everyone is a professional soldier – no conscripts,
They must take lie-detector tests, and any contact with me could lead to a criminal case.”
If I had run away from the nuclear forces base, then the local FSB Security Service would’ve reacted decisively and I probably wouldn’t have been able to leave the country,
Right now, they are able to use ATACMS to defend themselves in an immediate-need basis. And right now, understandably, that's taken place in around Kursk, in the Kursk Oblast."
Of course, this is one of the options that has also been repeatedly mentioned. The appearance of such U.S. systems in any region of the world will determine our next steps, including in the field of organizing a military and military-technical response,
Ryabkov said, according to Russian state news Putin still using [chemical weapons] on a daily basis and the Russians are making some pretty impressive gains in the Donbas [through that],