Why, in the midst of a possible war with Ukraine, will Putin lead military exercises?

this saturday 19 Vladimir Putin will show the world what the Armed Forces are capable of Russia. Amid tensions with Ukraine and the possibility of an invasion of this former Soviet republic, the Russian president will conduct military exercises in which there will be “ballistic missile and cruise missile fire”.

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“He wants to show what is the true Russian military power. Not conventional weapons, but nuclear ones. Remember that, of those, Russia has more than United States”.

who thinks is the international analyst Francesco Tucci. For him, this is a new move by Putin in the chess game he has been playing with USAthe NATO and the European Uniona form of “redraw a red line” what West must not cross.

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Image from 2020, where ground units are seen transporting ballistic missiles. AP (Alexander Zemlianichenko/)

“Russia cannot allow to have a NATO member country on its borders, larger borders than the ones it has with the Baltic countries. Belarus Y Ukraine they are key countries to defend the country, to avoid coming face to face with NATO”.

That is why it would not be enough for him to deploy 150 thousand soldiers to the border with Ukraine, according to charges Kremlin. You need to show yourlong-range bombers, submarines, surface ships”, next to the “Aerospace Forces and North and Black Sea Fleets”.

Of course, Moscow He denies that it is an affront. It is, they say, “a regular workout“that shouldn’t”cause any concern”.

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Photo from 2021. A Russian nuclear submarine can be seen. AP (Vadim Savitsky/)

. Suffice it to recall that US intelligence determined that Wednesday of this week would be the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. However, it does not happened.

To this should be added that there seems to be no real interest in resolving the matter. The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz He maintains that incorporating Ukraine into NATO is not on the agenda and that, therefore, the Russian escalation makes no sense.

“But that doesn’t solve the problem, it only postpones it.”, concludes Tucci.

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Source: Elcomercio