For the first time in the last 30 years, Russia has reportedly begun deploying ships armed with tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic Sea, according to the Norwegian Intelligence Service in its annual report.
"The key part of the nuclear potential is in the submarines and surface ships of the Northern Fleet," they have highlighted.
Although Russia has weapons that can threaten Norway and the NATO military alliance, such as its submarine capabilities and anti-satellite weapons, this tactical nuclear weapon poses "a particularly serious threat in several operational scenarios in which the countries of NATO may be involved", as specified in the report.
Thus, Norwegian intelligence has emphasized in the document that, for these reasons indicated above, an escalation of the war involving Norway itself, the United States and also NATO could not be ruled out.
For its part, the US on Monday intercepted four Russian planes near Alaska that were in international airspace, in an operation that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) described as routine.
NORAD said in a statement that the Russian aircraft never entered the "sovereign airspace" of the US or Canada and clarified that they are "in no way related" to the Chinese spy balloon or the three flying objects. unidentified that he has killed in recent days.
Specifically, the Russian planes were in Alaska's "Air Defense Identification Zone," which encompasses the country's airspace plus a broader area where air traffic is monitored by the national military to prevent threats. .
He specified that two of the Russian aircraft were a Tupolev Tu-95 bomber and a Sukhoi Su-35 air defense fighter.
