Russia warns of direct clash with US with the attacks on Airbases

The US has “unleashed a total hybrid war” against Russia and is putting the two nuclear nations on a path to direct confrontation, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. It claims Washington’s demands for nuclear inspections in Russia are “cynical”, considering its “obvious” assistance in Ukrainian attacks against Russian strategic nuclear forces.

The allegations were part of the Ministry’s public comments on the status of the New START treaty, the last remaining US-Russian agreement on nuclear weapons reduction. According to US media, the Department of State notified the Congress last week that Russia was in “noncompliance” due to a refusal to facilitate inspections on its soil. Russian ICBM By Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62913564... A launch authorization device By Bunkerfunker - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32560109... Russian solders By Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=62913583... Military Districts of the Russian Empire, 1913, By Boroduntalk - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7206822... Ilyushin Il-78M at Dyagilevo and Аэродромы и терминалы-перроны и стоянки, Рязань - Дягилево RP128969 Dyagilevo airfield By Alex Beltyukov - http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Ilyushin-Il-78/2288135, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31070260... Tupolev Tu-160 By Vitaly V. Kuzmin - http://vitalykuzmin.net/?q=node/498, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=26283786