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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev told Trump to remember Moscow had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities
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Donald Trump<\/a> says he has sent two nuclear submarines<\/a> \u201cnear Russia<\/a>\u201d after former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev<\/a> suggested Moscow could strike the US<\/a> with a nuclear weapon.
Mr Trump<\/a> said he was ordering the American vessels to the \u201cappropriate regions\u201d due to the \u201chighly provocative statements<\/a> of the former president of Russia\u201d.
Mr Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council<\/a>, told the US president to remember Moscow<\/a> had Soviet-era nuclear strike capabilities<\/a> after Mr Trump threatened further sanctions over the Ukraine<\/a> war.
Mr Trump said the move was a precautionary measure \u201cjust in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more than just that.\u201d
Mr Medvedev has frequently wielded nuclear threats and lobbed insults at Western leaders on social media since Vladimir Putin<\/a> illegally invaded Ukraine in 2022.
It is not clear if Mr Trump was referring to Washington<\/a>\u2019s Ohio<\/a>-class nuclear ballistic missile submarines or the nuclear-powered Los Angeles<\/em><\/a> and Virginia<\/em><\/a>–<\/em>class fast-attack boats.
Both the ballistic missile and fast-attack boats are nuclear powered, but only the Ohio-<\/em>class missile submarines are known to carry nuclear weapons.
There has been no response from the Kremlin, Russian foreign ministry or defence ministry since US president Donald Trump said he had ordered two nuclear submarines \u201cnear Russia\u201d.
Russia’s defence ministry said Russian forces had captured the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region on Saturday
The battlefield report was not immediately verified.
Ukraine’s military said on Saturday that it had struck oil facilities inside Russia, including a major refinery as well as a military airfield for drones and an electronics factory.
In a statement on Telegram, Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces said they had hit the oil refinery in Ryazan, about 180 km (110 miles) southeast of Moscow, causing a fire on its premises.
Also hit, the USF said, was the Annanefteprodukt oil storage facility in the Voronezh region that borders on northeastern Ukraine.
The statement did not specify how the facilities were hit, but the USF specialises in drone warfare, including long-range strikes.
There was no immediate comment from Russia on the reported attacks on its infrastructure sites.
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said.
Russia’s Defence Ministry said air defenses intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula.
A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said.
Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike on business premises in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko.
In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said.
According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday.
It said that air defenses shot down or jammed 45 drones.
Donald Trump said later on Friday that he was alarmed by Medvedev’s attitude.
“He’s got a fresh mouth,” Trump said in an interview with Newsmax.
Mr Trump has said that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made.
He cut his 50-day deadline for action to 10 days, with that window set to expire next week.
Dmitry Medvedev was Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, while Vladimir Putin was barred from seeking a third consecutive term, and then stepped aside to let him run again.
Now deputy chairman of Russia’s National Security Council, which Vladimir Putin chairs, Medvedev has been known for his provocative and inflammatory statements since the start of the war in 2022. That’s a U-turn from his presidency, when he was seen as liberal and progressive.
Mr Medvedev has frequently wielded nuclear threats and lobbed insults at Western leaders on social media. Some observers have argued that with his extravagant rhetoric, Medvedev is seeking to score political points with Putin and Russian military hawks.
One such example before the latest spat with Mr Trump came on 15 July, after Mr Trump announced plans to supply Ukraine with more weapons via its NATO allies and threatened additional tariffs against Moscow.
Mr Medvedev posted then, “Trump issued a theatrical ultimatum to the Kremlin. The world shuddered, expecting the consequences. Belligerent Europe was disappointed. Russia didn’t care.”
Two US nuclear submarines are closer to Russia, US President Donald Trump said in an interview with Newsmax.
“They are closer to Russia, I assume,” the US leader said.
“We always want to be ready. And so I have sent to the region two nuclear submarines.\u201d
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