Ukraine, Putin deploys nuclear-armed fighter jets and ships. secret service alert

Major maneuvers for the spring offensive with which Vladimir Putin’s Russia wants to break through the Ukrainian defense and recover the territories that Kiev’s armed forces have reconquered in recent months. The Russians are massing fighter jets and helicopters on the Ukrainian border to support the new ground offensive. The alarm was raised by Western intelligence services, reports the Financial Times, which cites two officials briefed on the alert by undercover agents.

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III, during meetings with allied countries that support Ukraine that took place today, underlined the threat of the Russian air force: “We have a short time to help the Ukrainians prepare for the offensive. ropes, so it’s likely they’re targeting planes,” a senior US official said.

But Austin, briefed on the story by the British financial newspaper, denied that Moscow was sending fighter jets and planes to the border: “We don’t see Russia gathering air forces to launch an offensive, but certainly Moscow continues to have great aviation capacity.” said the defense secretary at the end of the Ramstein format meeting in Brussels. However, “Ukraine has done a good job in intercepting Russian missiles and we want them to have all the means to defend themselves, even if the Russians decide to use aviation.”

But another alarm from northern Europe seems to confirm Vladimir Putin’s acceleration of military operations. The Norwegian intelligence service says in its annual report that Russia has started deploying nuclear-armed tactical ships in the Baltic Sea for the first time in 30 years. “The fundamental part of the nuclear potential is in the submarines and surface ships of the Northern Fleet”, observed the 007 according to Politico.