John Bacon

USA TODAY

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/10/26/ukraine-russia-live-updates/10604667002/

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Russia’sStrategic Deterrence Forces conducted a successful training exercise Wednesday aimed at delivering a “massivenuclear strike” in the event of anuclear attack, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The exercise, overseenby President Vladimir Putin, involvedmobile ground-based missile systemsand the strategic missile submarine Tulaof Russia’s Northern Fleet.The Kremlin said in a statement that all the test-fired missiles reached their targets.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday pressed his country’s narrative – vehemently denied by Ukraine and the West–that Kyiv is preparing to strike with a “dirty bomb”and then blame Russia.

U.S. experts have theorized that Russia is either considering its own “false flag” dirty bomb explosion or is using the narrative to drum up more support for the war at home.

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