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News of Moscow\u2019s latest test comes days after Trump warned the US has a nuclear submarine off Russian shores
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Moscow has said that if the US resume nuclear weapons testing it will do so too, sparking fears of a renewed arms race.
The remarks by a Kremlin official on Thursday came after Donald Trump said he had ordered the US military to resume testing \u201cimmediately\u201d.
Trump made the announcement after Vladimir Putin<\/a> announced a successful test of a Poseidon nuclear-powered submarine torpedo which experts have warned is capable of causing a \u201cradioactive tsunami<\/a>\u201d. The Russian president said the test of the weapon had been a \u201cgreat success\u201d, in a move that came days after Trump described Moscow<\/a>\u2019s test of a nuclear missile as a mistake.
There are few confirmed details about the Poseidon in the public domain but experts say it is capable of triggering radioactive ocean swells to render coastal cities uninhabitable, according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists<\/em>.
Putin last week held a nuclear launch drill and on Sunday announced that Russia<\/a> has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile, a nuclear-capable weapon Moscow says can pierce any defence shield.
Russia has said any dialogue with Japan regarding a peace treaty to formally end World War 2 can only begin once Tokyo abandoned what Moscow described as a damaging “anti-Russian” stance.
Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, scolded Russia for its \u201caggression against Ukraine\u201d in a speech last week but also said that Japan maintains \u201cits policy of resolving the territorial issue and concluding a peace treaty.\u201d
Soviet troops took control of four islands off Japan’s Hokkaido at the end of the war and they have remained in Moscow’s hands ever since.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday she had not seen anything new in the remarks by Takaichi, and that for any progress Tokyo would have to change its tone.
\u201cWe have repeatedly stated before that the path to resuming dialogue with Japan will open only after Tokyo actively abandons its anti-Russian course aimed at harming our country and its citizens,\u201d Zakharova said.
Trump\u2019s decision to resume nuclear weapons tests in the US is facing domestic criticism – and a stark warning it could lead to escalation.
Representative Dina Titus, a Democratic member of the U.S. Congress from Nevada, condemned the move, saying on X: \u201cI’ll be introducing legislation to put a stop to this.\u201d
Daryl Kimball, director of the Arms Control Association think tank, said it would take the US at least 36 months to resume contained nuclear tests underground at the former test site in Nevada.
\u201cTrump is misinformed and out of touch. The US has no technical, military or political reason to resume nuclear explosive testing for the first time since 1992,” he said on X.
Trump’s announcement, he added, could \u201ctrigger a chain reaction of nuclear testing by US adversaries, and blow apart the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.\u201d
Europe\u2019s NATO<\/a> allies have been shaken by Russian provocations<\/a> on the bloc\u2019s eastern frontier in recent months, reporting a string of drone incursions<\/a> and scrambling jets to shadow aircraft flying over the Baltic.
Concern has mounted since September, when nearly two dozen drones crossed over into Poland<\/a> amid a large-scale Russian drone attack on Ukraine<\/a>.
Days later, three Russian military jets violated Estonia\u2019s airspace<\/a> for 12 minutes.
Subsequent activity near the border<\/a> has forced European countries to close airports and borders, and to reconsider how equipped they are to deal with foreign intrusions.
Click here <\/a>for more on how Putin has been provoking Ukraine\u2019s allies over land, air and sea.
The Polish Army Operational Command later described the incident on social media platform X.
\u201cOn October 30, 2025, before 9.00 a.m., the on-duty pair of MiG-29 fighters of the (Polish) Air Force carried out another interception this week of a Russian Federation reconnaissance aircraft Il-20 conducting a flight over the Baltic Sea,\u201d it said.
\u201cThe aircraft, flying in international airspace without a filed flight plan and with its transponder turned off, was intercepted, identified, and escorted out of the area of responsibility. There was no violation of Polish airspace.\u201d
Countries on NATO’s eastern flank have been on high alert for potential airspace incursions since September when three Russian military jets violated Estonia’s airspace for 12 minutes, days after more than 20 Russian drones had entered Polish airspace.
Polish MiG-29 fighter aircraft intercepted a Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea on Thursday in the second such incident this week, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
Poland’s army said on Wednesday that Polish jets had intercepted a Russian aircraft flying a reconnaissance mission in international airspace over the Baltic Sea on Tuesday.
\u201cToday MiG-29s intercepted a Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea,\u201d Kosiniak-Kamysz said, describing it as just like the incident on Tuesday.
Russia has been inching towards Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region for more than a year, slowly but steadily taking control of the small villages to its south.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s general staff said that at least 200 Russian military personnel entered the city in separate groups as small-arms firefights raged in the former logistics hub.
Ukraine was taking steps to \u201cstrengthen the stability of defences\u201d in the city and aimed at bolstering its logistics by improving defence of supply and evacuation routes, Syrskyi said.
\u201cThe main priority is to save the lives of our soldiers,\u201d he said. Logistics for the city were complicated due to Russia’s FPV drones \u201cbut possible\u201d, Ukraine’s 7th Rapid Response Corps operating in the area said in a statement on Facebook.
The brigade added that Russia mostly used infantry to attack Pokrovsk, but also deployed armed vehicles to advance on Myrnohrad, around 4 miles to the northeast.
Ukraine is intensifying its efforts to defend the strategic hub of Pokrovsk, aiming to secure key supply and evacuation routes and root out Russian infantry infiltrating the city, the top army commander said on Thursday.
Oleksandr Syrskyi said he visited the area to meet his troops as Russia – almost four years into its invasion of Ukraine – continued to increase its assaults.
He dismissed Moscow’s assertion that its forces had trapped the Ukrainian troops inside the eastern stronghold.
\u201cThe enemy infantry, avoiding combat, is gathering in urban areas and changing locations, so the primary task is to locate and destroy them,\u201d Syrskyi said on the Telegram app.
With nuclear sabre-rattling from both Trump and Putin, there is renewed focus on number of such weapons around the world.
There are nine countries that possess nuclear weapons, and although they don\u2019t generally give confirmed figures on how many there are widely reported estimates.
Despite Trump\u2019s claims that the US has the largest number, it is believed Russia has the highest number of nuclear weapons though Moscow\u2019s lack of transparency makes this difficult to confirm.
For more on the so-called \u2018Nuclear Club\u2019, click here<\/a>.
Six children were among the 17 people wounded in strikes on Zaporizhzhia, its governor said.
Four people were injured in the Vinnystia region, officials said. Air alerts lasted for nearly the entire night in Kyiv, where residents took shelter in deep underground metro stations.
\u201cThere’s nothing good in it. We are doing our best to hide,\u201d Viktoria, 39, mother of a six-year-old boy, told Reuters at a metro station.
\u201cThere’s a lot of stress involved. When you wake your child in the middle of the night, he cries because he doesn’t understand why he has to do it.\u201d
President Donald Trump downplayed the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing for the first time in more than three decades by pointing to other countries who are doing the same.<\/a>
In a Truth Social post<\/a> Thursday, the president said he directed the Pentagon to \u201cimmediately\u201d testing<\/a> nuclear weapons \u201con an equal basis\u201d with other countries with nuclear powers.
Trump wrote the post just before his meeting with China\u2019s President Xi Jinping.
After the meeting, on his way back to Washington, DC on Air Force One, reporters asked him what prompted the decision.
“With others doing testing, I think it’s appropriate that we do also,” the U.S. president told reporters. \u201cWe have more nuclear weapons than anybody. We don\u2019t do testing\u2014halted it many years ago. With others doing testing, I think it\u2019s appropriate that we do testing also.\u201d
When pressed as to when the nuclear testing would begin, Trump said the timing would \u201cbe announced.\u201d
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