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Putin Reminds West That Russia Has World’s Most Advanced Nuclear Weapons

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a Wednesday meeting of government ministers and military leaders took the opportunity to remind all other nations, especially the West, that Russia possesses the world’s most advanced nuclear weapons.

He introduced in the public statements that “special attention” must be paid to the continued development of the country’s nuclear triad, in reference to the combination of land-based delivery methods, submarine-launched ballistic missiles and strategic bombers.

“Now, the share of the state-of-the-art weapon systems and equipment in our strategic nuclear forces comes to 95%,” Putin said, according to state media translation. He added Russia is making “good progress” on the nuclear readiness front.
Source: Sputnik/Reuters

“That is the highest level among all of the world’s nuclear powers,” Putin then emphasized. He said:

Today, our task is to form a new long-term program for the entire complex of systems and weapons models, including, first of all, of course, promising ones, to make maximum use of the experience of the special military operation (the war against Ukraine – ed.), various regional conflicts, and, of course, it is important to take into account global trends in the development of military technologies.

He also assessed general military readiness, saying further: “The dominant force in conducting modern military operations of any scale and intensity remains the ground forces. And it is important to increase their combat capabilities in the shortest possible time.”

Currently, full nuclear triad capabilities are possessed only by three countries in the world — the USA, China and Russia.

American military leaders have tended to acknowledge the diversity and advancement of Russia’s nuclear-delivery systems. One of the latest new systems, the Sarmat ICBM, is boasted by Kremlin sources as being able to travel 11,000 miles (about 18,000km) with a payload of around ten tons.

A month ago, Putin made an unprecedented allegation. He asserted that Ukraine’s Western supporters in NATO were essentially trying to bait Moscow into deploying nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Putin emphasized that Russia exercised restraint in this matter.

During the ceremony of awarding the Hero of Labor medal, Deputy Scientific Director of the Snezhinsk Nuclear Center Yuri Dikov promised Putin:
“The entire NATO pack will break their teeth on our nuclear shield.”
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“They wanted to provoke us, wanted us to make mistakes,” the Russian leader had asserted in the early May Rossiya-1 interview. “And there was no need to use the weapons that you mentioned. I hope that it won’t be necessary,” he added.

“We have enough capabilities and means to finish what we started in 2022 with the result that Russia needs,” Putin concluded. He emphasized that Russia is able to carry through with its military goals without resorting to nuclear arms.

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TikTok’s Most Popular Star Khaby Lame Leaves US After Being Detained By ICE

Authored by Katabella Roberts via The Epoch Times,

TikTok star Khaby Lame has voluntarily left the United States after being detained by immigration agents in Nevada for allegedly overstaying his visa, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained the 25-year-old Senegalese Italian influencer, whose legal name is Seringe Khabane Lame, on June 6 at the Harry Reid International Airport near Las Vegas, a Senior DHS official confirmed in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times.

“Lame was granted voluntary departure June 6 and has since self-deported the U.S.,” the official said.

Voluntary departure allows individuals facing removal from the United States to leave at their own expense, avoiding a deportation order on their immigration record, which could otherwise bar them from reentering the country for up to a decade.

Lame arrived in the United States on April 30, an ICE spokesperson said.

Lame, a citizen of Italy, is the world’s most popular TikTok personality, with about 162 million followers on the Chinese-owned app. He rose to international fame during the COVID-19 pandemic with videos that show him silently reacting to complicated life hacks.

He moved from his native Senegal to Italy as an infant but was not granted citizenship until 2022 because of strict Italian citizenship laws.

Lame told The Associated Press that before finding fame on TikTok, his family had been poor but happy.

Nowadays, “it’s another reality, it’s completely another world,” he said, adding that he was still not used to life in the spotlight but was gradually adapting.

Lame is also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. He has not publicly commented on his detainment in Las Vegas.

The Epoch Times reached out to Lame for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

Lame’s detainment and voluntary departure from the United States come as protests continue across the country in response to ICE operations.

Demonstrations initially broke out in Los Angeles on June 6 in response to ICE operations targeting illegal immigrants but have since spread to more cities, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Washington, and Chicago.

In some locations, protestors clashed with law enforcement officials and were arrested.

Trump has deployed 4,000 members of the National Guard and hundreds of Marines to the Los Angeles area to quell the demonstrations, invoking his authority under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which allows him to deploy National Guard units into federal service if the United States is invaded, there is a “rebellion or danger of rebellion,” or the president is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”

The move marked the first time in decades that a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor, and prompted condemnation from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who described it as “unprecedented” and said it “threatens the very core of our democracy.”

Newsom asked a federal court on June 10 to block Trump from deploying federal troops in his city, but a judge denied the request.

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