Russian Foreign Ministry said drills with nuclear weapons aim to cool down Western ‘hotheads’

Moscow expects that Russia’s upcoming exercises to practice the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons will cool down the ‘hotheads’ in the West – as noted in a statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry, TASS reports

“We hope that this event will cool down the ‘hotheads’ in Western capitals, help them realise the possible catastrophic consequences of the strategic risks they generate and keep them from both assisting the Kiev regime in its terrorist actions and from being drawn into a direct armed confrontation with Russia,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

It was also noted that the drills to practice the use of Russia’s non-strategic nuclear weapons should be viewed in the context of recent bellicose statements by NATO members. The Russian Foreign Ministry also stated that whenever and wherever American-made ground-based INF missiles appear, Russia reserves the right to react in a mirror manner.