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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 16 May 2018

Putin: New weapons will maintain Russia’s might for decades

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s facilities with a heavy nu-
new weapons, including clear weapon.
an array of new nuclear He also mentioned other
systems, will ensure the weapons systems, includ-
country’s security for de- ing the prospective S-500
cades to come, President air defense system that is
Vladimir Putin said Tuesday meant to be precise and
at a meeting with top mili- powerful enough to hit tar-
tary brass. gets in space.
Speaking in Sochi, Putin Putin said the strategic nu-
said the new systems un- clear forces should receive
veiled this year will signifi- new batches of Yars inter-
cantly increase Russia’s mil- continental ballistic missiles
itary capabilities and “en- to replace the older Topol
sure a strategic balance for ICBMs. Also in the pipeline
decades.” are modernized Tu-160 and
The Russian leader present- Tu-95 strategic bombers
ed an array of new nuclear equipped with long-range
weapons in March that he cruise missiles and the new
said can’t be intercepted. Borei-class nuclear subma- Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks to a group of workers after driving to officially open the
They include a new heavy rines armed with ICBMs. much-anticipated bridge linking Russia and the Crimean peninsula the opening ceremony near
intercontinental ballistic The navy, Putin said, will in Kerch, Crimea, Tuesday, May 15, 2018.
missile; a nuclear-powered commission more warships The Russian president said Armata main battle tanks. plummeted to post-Cold
global range cruise missile; armed with Kalibr cruise the army will receive a The Kremlin has made mili- War lows over the Ukrainian
and an underwater drone missiles that the military test- range of new armored ve- tary modernization a top crisis, the war in Syria and
designed to strike coastal ed during the war in Syria. hicles, including the new priority as Russia-West ties other disputes.q

Thousands protest in

Bosnia over killings

of 2 young men

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herze- dead in March. Police said
govina (AP) — Thousands of he drowned, but Dragicev-
Bosnians demanded Tues- ic’s father insists his son was
day that authorities find beaten and then killed.
the truth behind the deaths The father has led weeks of
more than two years apart protests in Banja Luka that
of a Muslim and a Serb, have challenged the gov-
bridging Bosnia’s ethnic di- ernment in the Serb-domi-
vide with a protest calling nated part of the country.
for an end to alleged gov- Authorities in Sarajevo and
ernment corruption and in Banja Luka have denied
negligence. the allegations leveled by
Memic, 22, of Sarajevo, the grieving men.
died in February 2016 from Apart from a joint gov-
what prosecutors initially ernment, Bosnia also has
described as intentional separately governed Serb
homicide, but later treated and Muslim-Croat enti-
as the result of a vehicle ties, which were created
accident. Two men have through a peace agree-
been charged with driving ment that ended the 1992-
the van that hit Memic. His 95 war between Bosnia’s
father claims his son was Serbs, Muslims and Croats.
slain deliberately and au- Tensions among former war
thorities protected the real foes persist more than two
killers. decades after the conflict
Dragicevic, 21, from Serb- that killed 100,000 people
held Banja Luka, was found and left millions homeless.q