Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu applaud during the launching of construction of new nuclear submarines and other warships via video conference on the side of the International Military Technical Forum Army-2021 in Alabino, outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. Putin has launched the construction of new nuclear submarines and other warships, part of a sweeping military modernization effort amid tensions with the West. He gave orders for two nuclear submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles along with two diesel-powered submarines and two corvettes at shipyards in Severodvinsk, St. Petersburg and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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