The New Media Journal | Russia 'Simulates' Nuclear Attack on Poland

The New Media Journal | Russia 'Simulates' Nuclear Attack on Poland: "Russia has provoked outrage in Poland by simulating an air and sea attack on the country during military exercises. The armed forces are said to have carried out 'war games' in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practiced an amphibious landing on the country's coast.

Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland's leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus. The maneuvers are thought to have been held in September and involved about 13,000 Russian and Belarusian troops.

Poland, which has strained relations with both countries, was cast as the 'potential aggressor.'

The documents state the exercises, code-named 'West', were officially classified as 'defensive' but many of the operations appeared to have an offensive nature.

The Russian air force practiced using weapons from its nuclear arsenal, while in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, which neighbors Poland, Red Army forces stormed a 'Polish' beach and attacked a gas pipeline.

The operation also involved the simulated suppression of an uprising by a national minority in Belarus – the country has a significant Polish population which has a strained relationship with authoritarian government of Belarus.

Karol Karski, an MP from Poland's Law and Justice, is to table parliamentary questions on Russia's war games and has protested to the European Commission.

His colleague, Marek Opiola MP, said: 'It's an attempt to put us in our place. Don't forget all this happened on the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.'

Ordinary Poles were outraged by news of the exercise and demanded a firm response fro the government..."