text: by The Kootneeti Team · 8th May 2022
  IVANOVO REGION, RUSSIA - FEBRUARY 25, 2022: Servicemen line up by Yars intercontinental ballistic missile systems of the 54th Guards Rocket Division of the 27th Guards Missile Army of the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces based in Teikovo, Ivanovo Region, during a ceremony to send military hardware to Alabino training ground near Moscow as part of preparations for the Victory Day parade in Moscow's Red Square. Vladimir Smirnov/TASS (Photo by Vladimir SmirnovTASS via Getty Images)
  U.S. officials quickly called Putin's comments about putting Russian nuclear forces on high alert dangerous, escalatory and totally unacceptable, while NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg criticized them as aggressive and irresponsible.
  However, U.S. officials also immediately made clear they had seen no signs that Russian forces had changed their nuclear posture and the U.S. military said it saw no need to alter its own.