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The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was the site of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces during the Battle of Chernobyl as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 24 February 2022, Russian forces captured the plant. [3][4] The resulting activity reportedly led to a 20-fold increase of detected radiation levels in the area due to ...
Russia is one of the five "Nuclear Weapons States" (NWS) under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which Russia ratified (as the Soviet Union) in 1968. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, a number of Soviet-era nuclear warheads remained on the territories of Belarus, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
Post-Soviet Russia has not carried out a nuclear test. Since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, only a few countries have tested nuclear weapons, according to the Arms Control Association: the ...
The current doctrine was set out by President Vladimir Putin in June 2020 in a six-page decree. It states, in part: "The Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in response to ...
Weapons of mass destruction. Ukraine, formerly a republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1922–1991, once hosted Soviet nuclear weapons and delivery systems on its territory. [1] The former Soviet Union had its nuclear program expanded to only four of its republics: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.
13 [3] On the night of 17–18 September 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) ammunition depot in Toropets, causing a massive series of explosions and fires and shattering of windows across nearby towns. [4][5] The main explosion caused a seismic wave of ...
Bloomberg reported that in the first half of 2022, Russia pocketed an extra $24 billion from selling energy to both nations. [401] According to the IMF in its 11 April 2022 country report on Russia, the Russian economy is projected to see a -8.5% decrease in its real GDP in 2022, with inflation of 21.3% in that same year. [402]