Rangoli Raj, a Delhi medical student, stated over the phone that Ukrainian border police stopped them at a checkpoint and invited them to play a "hunting game."
Putin cited "aggressive words" from NATO members and extensive sanctions imposed by Western nations in issuing the order to prepare Russia's nuclear weapons for higher readiness for launch.
Russia uses the SPFS system internally, which was established after the prospect of being cut off from the SWIFT system in 2015.