Moscow, Jan 15 (UNI) Russia, for the first time in history, has become the world’s leader in advanced weapons, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday.
"For the first time, let me stress, for the first time in the entire history of the existence of missile and nuclear weapons, including the Soviet period and present-day history, we are not catching up with anyone and, on the contrary, other leading countries of the world will still have to develop weapons, which Russia already possesses," Putin said in his annual State of the Nation Address to the Federal Assembly.