Russia checks the combat readiness of a unit of a nuclear missile unit in an area northwest of Moscow, the Ministry of Defense announced today, according to news agencies.
The Yars, which can be deployed in silos or adapted to mobile launchers, have a range of up to 11,000 kilometers and can carry multiple nuclear warheads.
Russia has carried out a series of nuclear exercises this year, which analysts say are aimed at deterring the West from deepening the war in Ukraine.
This last exercise takes place in the same week that NATO held its annual nuclear gymnasiums and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky presented his “victory plan”.
The president Vladimir Putin said last month that Moscow had expanded the list of scenarios that could lead to it using nuclear weapons, effectively lowering the threshold for their use. Ukraine accused Moscow of nuclear blackmail.
In the latest test, a unit in the Tver region will carry out an exercise to transport camouflaged Yars missiles at distances of up to 100 kilometers and protect them from air attacks and enemy sabotage groups, the Defense Ministry said, according to the Interfax news agency . .
Source: RES-MPE