Male and female military academy graduates raise their glasses in a toast to Russian President Vladimir Putin (second left) during a reception to mark their graduation at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia 26 June 2014. More than 2,700 graduates from the higher military schools will join the Russian Armed Forces this year. VozIsNeias
Al Jazeera: Putin: New Russian weapons decades ahead of foreign rivals
Russian president says Russia has made breakthrough in designing new weapons that are decades ahead of foreign designs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has boasted about his country's prospective nuclear weapons, saying they are years and even decades ahead of foreign designs.
The new weapons represent a quantum leap in the nation's military capability, Putin told graduates of Russian military academies in the Kremlin on Thursday.
He said that Russia has made a "real breakthrough" in designing new weapons.
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Update: Putin: New Russian weapons decades ahead of foreign rivals (AP)
WNU Editor: Russian President Putin does this every year. He meets graduates from Russia's military academies, and gives them a pep-talk. But NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has responded to Putin's boasts by warning that Russia has developed new “military capabilities” which “lowers the threshold” for the country to use nuclear weapons .... NATO Chief Warns Russia Has Developed Weapons That 'Lower Threshold' for Nuclear War (Newsweek).
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