MOSCOW, February 28. /TASS/. Russian Protection Minister Sergey Shoigu reported to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that the alert groups of the command posts of the Strategic Missile Pressure, the Northern and Pacific Fleets switched to enhanced fight alert, the Protection Ministry reported on Monday.
“Protection Minister of the Russian Federation Army Basic Sergey Shoigu reported to Russian Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin that in accordance together with his decree, the alert groups of the command posts of the Strategic Missile Pressure, the Northern and Pacific Fleets and the army command of long-range aviation had switched to enhanced fight alert,” the ministry mentioned.
The Russian chief mentioned at a gathering with Protection Minister Shoigu and Chief of the Basic Workers Valery Gerasimov within the Kremlin on February 27 that “high officers of main NATO nations additionally permit themselves to make aggressive pronouncements in the direction of our nation” and thus ordered to place the Russian Army’s deterrence forces on excessive alert. The Kremlin assembly occurred amid Russia’s particular army operation in Ukraine. Moscow commenced the operation in response to a request from the heads of the Donbass republics for help.
The Russian strategic deterrence forces are supposed to discourage aggression in opposition to Russia and its allies and rout an aggressor in a warfare with using numerous armaments, together with nuclear weapons. They comprise the strategic offensive and defensive forces.
The Russian strategic offensive forces armed with intercontinental missile and airborne programs are based mostly on the strategic nuclear forces that embrace the Strategic Missile Pressure. In addition they comprise strategic standard forces as dual-purpose troops: models and formations of strategic and long-range bombers, and likewise submarines, floor ships and Russian naval missile-carrying plane with long-range standard precision weapons.
The Russian strategic defensive forces are based mostly on combat-ready troops of the Aerospace Pressure that integrates the missile assault early warning system, the area management system, the anti-ballistic missile, area and air protection programs.
