“In a way, Trump is trying to play a game,” the director of International Security at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Dr Neil Melvin said. Melvin suggested Trump was trying to call out Moscow for rattling the nuclear saber over the last three years.

Joint drills are taking place in the Sea of Japan by Russia and China following President Donald Trump's announcement that he had deployed U.S. nuclear submarines in response to threats from Vladimir Putin Before Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine,

The Kremlin has dismissed concerns of a nuclear escalation following US President Donald Trump's decision to reposition two nuclear submarines closer to Russia. President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the move as an emotional reaction rather than a significant shift in military dynamics between the rival powers.