MOSCOW: Mammoth Russian military drills ordered by President Vladimir Putin from the Pacific to the Black Sea are designed to send a message to the West: keep your distance and don’t overplay your hand on Ukraine, observers say. Since the start of the Ukraine crisis more than a year ago, Russia has flexed its muscles with a series of war games but the scale of the latest military exercises – including sending nuclear bombers to Crimea and ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad in central Europe – has triggered a series of new questions. Experts say whatever the purpose of the latest …read more
Source: Kuwait Times
