RESET: Russia Holds Missile Drills Near Western Border.

The Defense Ministry said on October 20 that the war games were held at a shooting range near the city of Luga, some 100 kilometers east of the Estonian border.

The exercises featured the deployment of Iskander missiles and preparations for firing them, but didn’t involve actual launches, the military said.

Nuclear-capable Iskander missiles have a range of up to 500 kilometers.

Russia’s recent deployment of Iskander missiles to its Kaliningrad exclave puts Warsaw under a two-minute threat of nuclear annihilation. Russia is also believed to be developing a medium-range nuclear missile in violation of the 1987 INF treaty, appears have kept SS-25 mobile nuclear missile launchers in violation of the 2010 New START agreement, and last year Putin unilaterally withdrew from the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty.