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Rutte said that NATO exercises are successful and that he has "absolute confidence in the reliability of NATO's nuclear deterrent." The NATO chief warned that should Russia continue with their nuclear rhetoric then the public needs to know that the alliance has strong forces which "maintain peace, prevent coercion, and deter aggression." On 26 October Russia announced they had carried out a successful test of the long-range Burevestnik cruise missile from the Arctic archipelago of Novaya Zemlya in the Barents Sea.

Days earlier, she said Moscow was forced to develop and test the cruise missile, which is named the Burevestnik, meaning storm petrel a type of seabird, in response to NATO's hostility towards Russia. The development can be characterised as forced and takes place to maintain strategic balance, she was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying. Russia has to respond to NATO's increasingly destabilising actions in the field of missile defence.