- Donald Trump “ordered” the deployment of “two nuclear submarines” in response to “provocateur” comments from Russia on Friday.
- At the same time, Moscow continues its bombings on Ukraine and kyiv hits Russia with its drones.
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“A force demonstration with a political signal”
The American president ordered on Friday sending “two nuclear submarines” to “appropriate areas” on Friday in reaction to the “provocateur” comments of former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. What is Donald Trump looking for with this escalation? TF1info interviewed an international security specialist.
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Trump puts pressure on Russia
Breaking to Vladimir Putin after returning to the White House, the republican billionaire has threatened in recent days to impose new sanctions against Russia, which ignores its ultimatums and intensifies its bombings on Ukraine. But these are “incendiary” comments from the former Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, who caused the American president’s anger.
Dmitri Medvedev
The American president announced the deployment of “two nuclear submarines”, after comments by the former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. The latter had written that each ultimatum fixed by Donald Trump to end the conflict in Ukraine “was a threat and a step towards war.”
Three deaths in Ukrainian drone strikes
Three people were killed in Russia during Ukrainian drone strikes during the night from Friday to Saturday in the regions of Rostov and Penza (south) as well as that of Samara, far from the front, local authorities said.
The Russian army has announced that it had intercepted a total of 112 drones drawn by Ukraine overnight.
DONALD TRUMP
Donald Trump on Friday ordered the deployment of two nuclear submarines on Friday in reaction to “incendiary” comments from former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev. On his Truth Social network, Donald Trump wrote that he “ordered that two nuclear submarines are positioned in the appropriate areas, in case these silly and incendiary declarations are more serious than that”. “Words count and can often have unforeseen consequences, I hope this will not be the case this time,” warned the American president.
He did not specify where exactly the submarines would be sent, nor if they were submersibles with nuclear propulsion or atomic warheads. Asked shortly after his decision by a Newsmax channel presenter to find out if these submarines were “closer to Russia”, Donald Trump simply replied with a little laugh: “Yes, they are closer to Russia.”
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How far will they go? Friday, August 1, US President Donald Trump announced on his social social network, having “ordered”
the deployment of “Two nuclear submarines”
in “Appropriate areas”
After comments “provocateurs”
et “Incendiaries”
of former Russian president Dimitri Medvedev. However, he did not specify where exactly the submarines would be sent nor on what words of the former manager (2008-2012) he referred.
In recent days, Donald Trump has raised his tone against Russia and threatens to impose hard economic sanctions against Moscow if President Putin does not cease hostilities in Ukraine by next weekend. He envisages so -called sanctions “Secondary”
that is to say inflicted on countries that buy Russian oil, with the aim of drying up this essential source of income for the Russian war machine.
The 79 -year -old republican had operated a spectacular rapprochement with Vladimir Putin, convinced that his good relationship with the Russian leader would allow him to stop the war in Ukraine, shortly in January. This promise has long given up and gave way at Donald Trump to growing the master of the Kremlin.
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War in Ukraine: Donald Trump judges “disgusting” the last wave of Russian strikes
Simultaneously, AFP analyzed on Friday that the Russian armed forces had never launched as many drones against Ukraine in July. This analysis, based on figures provided by kyiv, reveals that Moscow drew 6,297 long -range drones against Ukraine last month, a figure increasing for the third consecutive month and up 16% compared to June. This includes a large share of lure drones, especially intended to saturate Ukrainian anti -aircraft defense already undermined by the intensity of the attacks.
Between January and June, Russia has tripled the number of missiles sent to Ukraine (77 against 239, then 198 in July), according to data analyzed by AFP. These air attacks take place every night, pushing the inhabitants to take refuge in a shelter, in their bathroom or in the corridors of a metro, under the din of alert sirens. During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, an attack on kyiv killed 31 civilians according to a new assessment communicated on Friday by the authorities, one of the worst of this type against the capital in more than three years of war.