During the Ukraine war, Ukraine's drone strikes exploded into Russia, and Russia launched an offensive to expand its tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring countries, while North Korea launched a ballistic missile test offensive.
North Korea launched a missile into the East Sea on the morning of the 27th, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
Regarding Russia's announcement of the 'July Plan' to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, a neighboring country of Ukraine, the Associated Press said, "President Putin announced this plan in a TV interview on the 25th and provided armor-piercing bombs containing depleted uranium to Ukraine last week. “Putin responded to the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus by saying that 'Russia is following the lead of the United States' nuclear deployment' and that the United States is pushing to deploy nuclear weapons in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey. mentioned possession,” it reported on the 26th.
Appearing on CBS on the 26th, US NSC Coordinator John Kirby said, "The United States is watching this closely, but has lowered the possibility of escalation." "he said.
"The US will 'monitor the implications' of Putin's announcement," NSC spokeswoman Aid Lee N. Watson said, adding there was "no indication that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons", he told The Associated Press.
Germany's dpa news agency reported that the German foreign ministry commented on Saturday's broadcast by Putin as "a further attempt at nuclear blackmail".
The US Institute for the Study of War called Putin's announcement "an 'intelligence operation' with little risk of escalation," adding, "Putin is attempting to capitalize on Western fears about nuclear escalation. "We continue to assess Putin as a risk-averse actor who repeatedly threatens to use nuclear weapons without further intent to break Western resolve," he told The New York Times.
"Despite President Putin's recent remarks, it is still unlikely that Russia will actually transfer nuclear warheads to Belarus," said Podvig, senior researcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament. It is questionable whether it will be ready to receive nuclear storage, and even if Russia moves weapons to Belarus, the level of nuclear threat will not change significantly,” he told the NYT.
"It's not a positive development, but the threat is not immediate as long as weapons are stored," he said. "Theoretically, Russia could reach more targets in Belarus, but the changes are minor.
Regarding the content of the Russian broadcast, the NYT said, “Putin was vague about when Russia would actually send nuclear warheads to Belarus. In a follow-up question from interviewer Pavel Zarubin, when asked "when and under what conditions the weapons themselves can be handed over," Putin said that Russia is replicating the US practice of "nuclear sharing" and that Moscow will continue to control weapons deployed in Belarus. He replied that he would do it.”
In the opinion of Western analysts, some warned that Putin could resort to a nuclear attack on Ukraine if it suffered dramatic losses on the battlefield, while other analysts argued that Russia's most important foreign partner, China, in particular, was opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. Given what he did, he said he dismissed his threat as bluff.
Russia possesses approximately 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, which have never been used in combat, but can be deployed in a variety of deployments, including missile and shell loading.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff announced that North Korea fired an unknown ballistic missile into the East Sea at around 7:50 am on the 27th. North Korea's missile launch is the first in five days following the strategic cruise missile on the 2nd, and the first ballistic missile launch in eight days since the 19th. .
North Korea has been continuously launching missiles since the 12th, before the start of the drill, in the name of the "Freedom Shield (FS)," a joint military exercise between the United States and South Korea.
In response to Putin's nuclear redeployment remarks on the 26th, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in an article calling for a UN Security Council meeting, the NYT said, "The statement said, 'The world must unite against those who endanger the future of human civilization.' Ukraine did not comment on the explosion in Russia on the 26th. According to media reports, it left a crater about 15 meters in diameter and 16 meters deep.”
The NYT continued, “Tas News reported that ‘authorities identified the drone as a Ukrainian Tu-141.’ The Soviet-era drone was reintroduced to Ukraine in 2014, has a range of 1,000 km, and the explosion occurred in the Tula region, about 300 km from the Ukrainian border. "The Russian Ministry of Defense said the drone crashed after an electronic jamming system disabled navigation. Similar drone strikes were common during the war, but Ukraine rarely admitted responsibility," it said.
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