{"id":317088,"date":"2025-08-04T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317088\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T12:10:10","slug":"russia-moves-nuke-bombers-closer-to-europe-just-days-after-explosive-trump-ww3-row-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/317088\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia moves nuke bombers closer to Europe just days after explosive Trump WW3 row | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vladimir Putin has moved at least four heavy Tu-95MS nuclear bombers<\/a> closer to Europe. The strategic aircraft are often used to bomb Ukraine<\/a>, and Insider UA says they have been loaded with missiles, leading to a \u201chigh probability\u201d of an imminent major attack.<\/p>\n

But, if confirmed, the move comes after Donald Trump<\/a> ordered two nuclear submarines \u201ccloser to Russia<\/a>\u201d after a threat of atomic war from the Kremlin dictator\u2019s close ally, Dmitry Medvedev. The US submarines are now \u201cwhere they have to be\u201d, Trump said late on Sunday. Putin rebased his Tu-95MS planes from Olenya airbase in the Arctic Murmansk region after an audacious June 1 drone strike by Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were also moved from Engels-2 in Saratov region amid fears of Ukrainian attacks. They were sent to Russia<\/a>\u2019s Ukrainka air base in Amur region, 3,650 miles east of Moscow, where they were considered safe from attack, but evidently some of the planes are returning.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia<\/a> has transferred bombers from the Far East closer to Ukraine<\/a>,\u201d said the report. \u201cAt least 4 Tu-95MS aircraft were redeployed from Ukrainka [air base] to Olenya\/Engels-2. Some of the aircraft are already equipped with cruise missiles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The planes are part of Russia<\/a>\u2019s nuclear strike arsenal but are also used for hitting Ukraine<\/a> with conventional bombs. The report is in a week when Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff is due to travel to Russia<\/a> ahead of the imposition of sanctions on the Kremlin by the US if there is no move to a ceasefire and talks about ending the war.<\/p>\n

The initiative to meet Witkoff comes from the Putin regime, said Trump.<\/p>\n

Russia<\/a> today sought to downplay Medvedev\u2019s comment when he accused Trump of bringing war closer between Russia<\/a> and the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery new ultimatum is a threat and a step towards war. Not between Russia<\/a> and Ukraine<\/a>, but with his own country,\u201d said Medvedev, which Trump said was \u201chighly provocative\u201d.<\/p>\n

But Putin\u2019s spokesman said today that it was the dictator\u2019s words that mattered, not those of Medvedev, an ex-president who is now deputy head of the Russian security council.<\/p>\n

\u201cListen, in every country, members of the country\u2019s leadership have different points of view on current events, have different attitudes,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are people with a hardline attitude in the US and in European countries; this is always the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the main thing, of course, is the position of President Putin. You know that in our country, foreign policy is formulated by the head of state, that is, President Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the Trump submarine move, he said: \u201cIt is obvious that American submarines are already on combat duty. This is an ongoing process. That is the first thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, of course, we would not want to get involved in such polemics or comment on this in any way. We are very careful about any statements related to nuclear issues. You know that Russia<\/a> takes a responsible position. President Putin\u2019s position is well known. Russia<\/a> is very attentive to the topic of nuclear non-proliferation. And, of course, we believe that everyone should be very, very careful with nuclear rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n

He warned: “There can be no winner in a nuclear war\u2026 We do not believe that we are talking about some kind of escalation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that very complex and sensitive situations are being discussed, which, of course, are perceived by many very emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin has moved at least four heavy Tu-95MS nuclear bombers closer to Europe. The strategic aircraft are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[34051,32,12,332,7661,115360,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-317088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-dmitry-medvedev","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","13":"tag-tu-95ms-bombers","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114970429132915332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}