Children race to put on gas masks during eerie WW3 nuclear drill

Russian children were forced to put on gas masks as the country held a terrifying drill for an incoming nuclear attack.

Sirens can be heard blaring in the footage and chilling messages were broadcast as Putin ordered the training exercise.

All regions across Russia’s 11 time zones took part in the drill which last for two days.

It was the country’s first nationwide drill, helping to scare civilians into believing the West will trigger nuclear war.

Emergency services reportedly wore hazmat suits, and one group even ran from a building with a dummy on a stretcher.

Spiked doors seemed to seal off an underground bunker holding Russian officials and police.

The message on TV screens as programmes were interrupted stated: ‘Attention, everyone!

‘There is a check of readiness of the warning system to the population.

Russia holds nationwide nuclear drills on 3 October 2023 in preparation for ‘the danger of armed conflicts involving nuclear powers’ (Picture: V1/e2w)

‘Please remain calm.’

In Moscow, alarms were supposed to go off at 10:43am for one minute, although some had sounded at night, and other residents heard nothing at all.

Many residents in other cities like Novosibirsk and Vladivostok heard nothing. 

In one city Volgograd, two shelters were utilised. 

One could accommodate up to 36,000 people. 

The message reads: ‘Attention, everyone! There is a check of readiness of the warning system to the population. Please remain calm.’ (Picture: social media/e2w)

‘The main goal of the drills is to check our readiness for specific actions,’ said emergencies minister Alexander Kurenkov who oversaw the drills. 

In a real nuclear war Vladimir Putin would be in charge. 

He is known to have multiple nuclear bunkers in his palaces as well as a fleet of ‘Doomsday’ Il-80 Maxdome aircraft for use in the event of atomic war. 

It was unclear if he played any secret role in the drills on Tuesday and today. 

The scenario for the test reads: ‘In some constituent entities [regions] of the Russian Federation, as a result of emergencies or other types of physical impact, complete destruction of life support facilities and up to 70 per cent of the housing stock is possible.’

All regions across Russia’s 11 time zones took part in the drill (Picture: social media/e2w)

It envisioned ‘accidents at hydraulic structures, chemically and radiation hazardous facilities’ resulting in ‘secondary hazards’.

Under the playbook, the Kremlin put all government structures on civil defence standby.

The document outlining Russia’s civil nuclear defence drill warned: ‘The risk of armed conflicts escalating into local and regional wars, including those involving nuclear powers, is increasing. 

‘The threat to the safety of the population is posed by the risk of the use by a possible by the enemy of modern long-range means of defeat,as well as possible attacks using unmanned aerial and watercraft.’

The Putin regime had ‘taken a decision to develop measures aimed at increasing the readiness of civil defence forces and means to take measures to protect the population, material and cultural property on the territory of the Russian Federation, including general evacuation from danger zones.’

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