Putin announces nuclear upgrade for Russia's weapons

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday (February 23) that 95% of Russia's strategic nuclear forces had been modernised and that the Air Force had just taken delivery of four new supersonic nuclear-capable bombers.
Putin made the comments in a statement released to coincide with Russia's annual Defender of the Fatherland Day, which celebrates the army, a day after he flew on a modernised Tu-160M nuclear-capable strategic bomber.
The Russian leader praised soldiers fighting in Ukraine in what he called a "special military operation," hailing them as heroes battling for "truth and justice."
But he devoted much of his speech to what he said were the achievements of the military-industrial complex.
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