Putin upgrades nuclear weapon bunkers: Satellite images show work at storage sites as Russia escalates its stand-off with NATO
Satellite images show works carried out at Russian military bunker in enclave of Kaliningrad
New roof and other upgrades could indicate that the bunker will house nuclear weapons
The site has fencing ‘typical of Russian nuclear weapons storage sites’, according to experts
By SARA MALM
DAILYMAIL.COM
18 June 2018
President Vladimir Putin appears to be renovating a military bunker in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad in order to store nuclear weapons, according to new satellite images.
Several ‘dramatic upgrades’ have been carried out at the military site in the Baltic Coast enclave in recent months, including a new roof, according to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).
The site also has the heavy duty multilayered fencing which is ‘typical of Russian nuclear weapons storage sites,’ according to FAS, who published the images.
It is another sign that Russia is escalating its military stand-off with NATO, after Putin announced that he is boosting his nuclear weapons arsenal in April this year.
Kaliningrad, where England is set to play Belgium in the football World Cup later this month, is cut off from the rest of Russia, and sandwiched between NATO members Lithuania and Poland.
‘It’s a site we have been monitoring for quite some time, and there have been some upgrades in the past, but nothing as dramatic as this one,’ Hans Kristensen, the director of the nuclear information project at FAS, told The Guardian.
‘This is the first time we’ve seen one of the nuclear bunkers being excavated and apparently renovated.
‘These pictures don’t prove that there are nuclear weapons in Kaliningrad now, but they do show it is an active site.’
The satellite images have been released just three days after NATO’s annual US-led military exercises in Poland and the Baltic States ended.
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