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Vladimir Putin has deployed his dreaded Tu-22M3 strategic nuclear bombers as part of massive new war games.
Russia and Belarus are holding a major joint military exercise on NATO’s doorstep at a time of heightened tension with the Western alliance.
The ‘Zapad’ – meaning ‘West’ – drills involve troops fighting off a mock attack against the two countries, whose alliance is known as the Union State, and then ‘crushing’ the enemy.
New footage shows the supersonic long-range strategic bomber carrying out a strike on a simulated enemy, ‘disrupting the control system and destroying critical objects’.
Troops will also drill the use of nuclear missiles from the West’s doorste