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A Russian TV news station forgot to blur out a top secret document - accidentally leaking a secret plan to bypass Nato's missile shield using NUCLEAR TORPEDOES.

The report was about a conference of army commanders and president Vladimir Putin about Russia's ability to strike if a proposed Nato missile defence shield - which could shoot incoming nukes out of the sky - is implemented.

The document, titled 'Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6', outlined a nuclear submarine weapons system that could bypass the high tech shield and cause apocalyptic damage to coastal regions.

However, the report may have been linked on purpose as a show of strength by the Kremlin.

Interestingly, other documents in the broadcast are blurred out by the TV station.

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The broadcast comes at a time of massive tension between the West and Russia over the Russian presence in the east of Ukraine and the nation's airstrikes supporting Assad in Syria.

Yesterday Putin said that Russia would counter Nato's US-led missile defence with new strike weapons capable of piercing the shield.

However, he added that Russia's military modernisation programme does not mean that the nation intends to engage in a Cold War-style arms race.

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Speaking during a meeting with arms industries officials, Mr Putin said that the ongoing military upgrade is a compensation for the years of insufficient funding that followed the Soviet collapse.

He added that "we have no intention to pull into some arms race, let alone try to catch up with or overtake somebody".

Ukraine's military and pro-Russian separatists accused each other on Wednesday of escalating violence in eastern Ukraine in defiance of a ceasefire deal, as Ukraine reported one of its soldiers killed in a direct attack.

The guns have been mostly silent since early September, prompting both sides to extend a pullback of lighter weapons, but an increase in ceasefire violations over the past two weeks has underscored the fragility of the peace process.