Strategic bombers to Crimea, nuclear-capable Iskander ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad, and unprecedented war games in Russia's far north: Virtually every unit, from paratroopers to antisubmarine forces, appears to be out in the field flexing its muscles in what the Ministry of Defense calls "snap drills" to test readiness for a range of "new threats."
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Christian Science Monitor: What’s behind Russia’s massive muscle-flexing?
A man looks through a window of a building with a banner depicting a Russian tank on it during celebrations in Sevastopol on March 18, 2015, to mark one year since Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed off on the annexation of Crimea in a epochal shift that ruptured ties with Ukraine and the West.
