Russia Redeploys Nuclear-Tipped Air-to-Air Missiles in Echo of Cold War

In the event of foreign states committing unfriendly actions that pose a threat to the sovereignty and territory integrity of the Russian Federation, our country considers it legitimate to take symmetric and asymmetric measures necessary to suppress such actions and prevent their recurrence,

Shoigu warned

Throughout the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Russia has used nuclearrelated rhetoric and military exercises to signal its resolve and deter Russia-perceived Western involvement in the conflict,

it added

When we are talking about certain military dangers that can develop into new threats, we are talking about increasing the responsibility of non-nuclear states that can participate in aggression against Russia, alongside nuclear-capable countries,

he said

The sharp slowdown in Russian gross domestic product growth from 4.5% year-on-year in the fourth quarter, to 1.4% in the first quarter is consistent with a sharp fall in output and suggests that the economy may be heading for a much harder landing than we had expected,

Liam Peach, senior emerging markets economist at Capital Economics commented last week

The economy is not demobilizing; it is just running out of steam. That said, a drop can easily become a dive. Bad decisions by policymakers, a further dip in oil prices, or carelessness with inflation, and Russia could find itself in trouble,

Kolyandr said

Under such conditions the Russians may move from Potemkin negotiations to actually negotiating,

Watling said

At the same time, while Russia can fight another two campaign seasons with its current approach to recruitment, further offensive operations into 2026 will likely require further forced mobilisation, which is both politically and economically challenging,

Watling surmised

After three years of militarizing the country, Russia's economy is cooling,

he said in online analysis for CEPA, noting

Russia will seek to intensify offensive operations to build pressure during negotiations, but the pressure cannot be sustained indefinitely,

Jack Watling, senior research fellow for Land Warfare at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) in London, said in analysis Tuesday

Such a sharp drop in GDP growth has surprised us, although we had expected a slowdown to take hold this year,

he noted

More aggressive enforcement against Russia's shadow fleet and the continuation of Ukraine's deep strike campaign could reduce the liquid capital that has so far allowed Russia to steadily increase defence production and offer massive bonuses for volunteers joining the military,

he said