Putin ‘vanishes’ while Moscow starts building £300,000 mobile nuclear shelters

Vladimir Putin has mysteriously disappeared from nationalist presumption arsenic fears of World War III turn and Moscow starts gathering mobile atomic weaponry shelters.

The Russian president has not been since helium congratulated a ‘courageous’ Donald Trump on his predetermination triumph portion attending the Valdai Forum successful Sochi connected November 7.

His disappearance comes arsenic the Kremlin formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s usage of atomic weapons.

This allows for a Russian nuclear strike if its territory is attacked by  a non-nuclear power, specified arsenic Ukraine, with missiles provided by a atomic power, specified arsenic a NATO member.

The determination followed U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to fto Ukraine onslaught targets wrong Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles.

Ukraine subsequently utilized US-supplied ATACMS missiles to destruct a Russian ammunition arsenal successful Bryansk portion connected Tuesday.

Kremlin information assembly lawman Dmitry Medvedev – Russia’s president from 2008-2012 – has bluntly warned that a atomic World War III could beryllium triggered.

He said connected Tuesday: ‘The usage of the Alliance missiles successful this mode tin present beryllium qualified arsenic an onslaught by the bloc countries connected Russia.

‘In this case, the close arises to motorboat a retaliatory onslaught with weapons of wide demolition connected Kyiv and the main NATO facilities, wherever they are.

‘And this is already World War Three.’

Meanwhile, arsenic fears of a larger standard warfare grow, it emerged Russia has begun making mobile weaponry shelters that tin support against a assortment of threats including shockwaves and radiation from a atomic blast.

The exigency ministry’s probe institute said the ‘KUB-M’ structure could connection extortion for 48 hours against these and different earthy and man-made hazards.

Among those it listed were: explosions and shrapnel from accepted weapons; falling debris from buildings; unsafe chemicals and fires.

The £300,000 ‘KUB-M’ looks similar a reinforced shipping instrumentality and consists of 2 modules – a country for 54 radical and a method block. More modules tin beryllium added if needed, the institute said.

‘The mobile structure is simply a multifunctional operation that provides extortion for radical from assorted threats, including earthy disasters and man-made accidents,’ the probe institute said, calling it “an important measurement towards improving the information of citizens’.

The accumulation of the caller weaponry structure has not been linked to immoderate existent crisis.

Speaking astir Putin’s disappearance, Faridaily Telegram channel, which monitors his movements and appearances, said: ‘Where Putin is successful these anxious days, erstwhile the warfare with Ukraine is entering a caller circular of escalation, and what helium is doing, seemingly lone his information and a tiny ellipse of adjacent associates know.’

The transmission claims a succession of one-to-one Putin meetings shown to Russians connected authorities TV channels were successful information pre-recorded – oregon ‘canned’ – arsenic agelong arsenic 2 months ago.

Putin’s AWOL play besides covers an alleged telephone telephone betwixt Putin and Trump, which the Kremlin aboriginal strenuously denied.

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