Hardly a week goes by when Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t threaten to nuke someone or someplace. The latest reference to nuking someone came last Friday when he formally annexed the Ukrainian oblasts of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson (read Putin’s Illegal Annexation of Ukrainian Territory Marks the Beginning of a War Without a Perceivable End and Putin’s Ukraine Annexation Speech Told Us What to Expect From Russia and It Is up to Us to Pay Attention ). In his speech, Putin pledged:
We will defend our land with all the forces and resources we have, and we will do everything we can to ensure the safety of our people.
And for the last four days has seen his army evicted from several hundred square miles of “our land.”
So when The Telegraph reported that Russian nuclear forces were on the move (Nuclear weapons convoy sparks fears Putin could be preparing test to send ‘signal to the West’), people clicked to find out. “Clicked” being the operative word. It was quickly picked up by other outlets (here here