President Vladimir Putin touted a range of new weapons that are ready for deployment at a meeting with defense officials in Sochi on May 15, saying they will significantly increase Russia’s military capabilities and “ensure a strategic balance for decades.”
As relations between the West and Russia have plummeted to post-Cold War lows, Putin has maintained that he does not want an arms race, but at the same time, he has warned that his country is developing a new generation of weapons that he has described as “invincible” and unmatched by foreign rivals.
