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Supposedly, an RS-26 was launched from Astrakhan and targeted at infrastructure in Dnipro.

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[–] DrGeraintLLannfrancheta@nafo.army 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

@Valmond @Kyrgizion exception: tac nuke over uninhabited land or 20.000 ft over the sea (but only after the succ invasion of e. G. Finnish wetlands or the Baltics)

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why would they do that? Lots to lose nothing really to gain?

[–] Streetlights@lemmy.world 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Shock and awe, and a demonstration that they do infact have operational nukes, can deliver them and are prepared to use them. Brinkmanship.

@Streetlights @Valmond exactly. They would likely only do it when already entered the NATO war rubicon... In order to divide NATO politically