On September 20, the Russian Federation completed the active phase of the Strategic Command and Staff Exercises of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation West-2017, the press service of the National Security and Defense Service of Ukraine.

At the last stage, a conditional application of a massive nuclear-missile strike with the use of the forces and means of all three components of the nuclear triad. This was said by NSDC Secretary A. Turchinov in his commentary.

According to him, during the last day of the exercises, six long-range Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3 long-range aircraft were used to test the nuclear-missile strike, which carried out flights in the airspace of the Barents, Baltic and Norwegian Seas. "The strategic missile forces were represented by combat calculation from the 14th missile division that carried out the training and combat launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-24" Yars "from the Plesetsk cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region. ) By the targets at the "Kura" (Kamchatka peninsula). The strategic missile submarine "Dmitry Donskoy" of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation carried out an electronic launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile of sea basing, "he said..

In addition, according to Turchinov's information, missile firings were carried out for naval purposes: in the water area of ??the Laptev Sea - by combat calculations of the Rubezh coastal missile systems, and in the Barents Sea to the naval groupings of the Northern Fleet, led by the heavy nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great and combat calculations of the coastal missile system "Bastion" consisting of 536 separate coastal missile and artillery brigade.

"The development of a massive missile and aircraft strike by the Russian Armed Forces once again confirms the aggressiveness and offensive nature of Russia's foreign and security policy, its readiness to escalate tensions with the West before the full-scale war, and demonstrates Russia's desire to dominate Europe," said the NSDC Secretary. , that active measures on the part of the forces of the Alliance and the US Armed Forces on monitoring Russian military activity show "a full understanding of the Western military scale of the Russian military eel PS ".

"After the completion of training and combat tasks in the SSCH West-2017, the departure of personnel, military equipment and weapons from landfills located on the territory of Belarus. Ukraine together with the partner countries will closely monitor the withdrawal of Russian troops from Belarus and return them to the points of permanent deployment, "concluded Turchinov.