Russia launched air, sea and land based nuclear-capable missiles in a nuclear readiness drill that will be widely viewed in the west as a warning to Nato amid mounting fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, watched the drills by all branches of Russia’s “nuclear triad” from the situation room in the Kremlin on Saturday morning, the Russian president’s office said.

The annual "Grom" drills saw the launch of two intercontinental ballistic missiles that would be used to strike the United States in case of nuclear war.

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