A RUSSIAN deserter revealed Vladimir Putin had his nukes ready and locked in bases from the day his forces invaded Ukraine. The former nuclear forces officer also revealed the terrifying state of these weapons that he said the tyrant had prepared to launch two years ago. This defector said he worked on one of Russia’s top-secret nuclear weapon bases in February 2022.
He explained that the invasion changed everything on the base, as the officers previously only had weapons exercises, according to the BBC . The defector revealed nukes were then put in place on the first day of the invasion. He said: “We were ready to launch the forces into the sea and air and, in theory, carry out a nuclear strike.
” The former officer added that three days later that the country’s nuclear forces had been ordered into a “special mode of combat service.” He explained his already secretive location went into lockdown as the workers were “shut inside the base.” The officer explained that many of the nuclear officers knew little about the war.
He added: “All we had was Russian state TV. “I didn’t really know what it all meant.” The former officer also rebutted claims that lots of Russia’s huge arsenal was outdated and from the Soviet era.
He claimed these nukes were regularly checked and ready to be used. The former officer said: “There might be some old-fashioned types of weapons in some areas, but the country has an enormous nuclear arsenal, a huge amount of warheads, i.