Ammon News - Russia on Wednesday ​showed what it said was footage of troops delivering nuclear warheads to mobile Iskander-M missile launch ‌systems, loading them and moving them to launch sites as part of a major nuclear exercise.

In a statement released to state media, the Defence Ministry said its forces had practised bringing units to "the highest levels of combat readiness for the use of nuclear ​weapons".

The three-day exercise, which started on Tuesday and is taking place across Russia and Belarus, comes ​at a time when Moscow is locked in what it says is an existential struggle ⁠with the West over Ukraine.

Reuters