Important Takeaways:
- Vladimir Putin’s forces are holding yet more nuclear missile drills amid an ongoing program of strategic military exercises, wheeling out terrifying intercontinental ballistic missiles in new footage released today.
- Unsettling footage shows mobile Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) being moved from hangars into forest locations in Russia’s remote Irkutsk region of Siberia for potential combat use.
- The missiles, which soar through space and re-enter the atmosphere at Mach 25 have a range of up to 7,500 miles, enabling a strike on Europe and the US.
- Yars missiles carry six independently targetable nuclear warheads, each with a power of more than 100 kilotons.
- That means one Yars strike can hit six different targets with each resulting explosion some six times more powerful than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
- Unlike Russia’s largest nuclear missile, the Sarmat, the Yars system is a solid fuel rocket, meaning it is easier to transport and faster to launch as it does not have to be fueled at the launch site.
- Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov oversees relations with the US, which diplomats in both countries say are at their lowest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis due to a confrontation over the conflict in Ukraine.
- He warned that if the West underestimated Moscow’s resolve, it could lead to ‘tragic and fatal’ consequences because the US and its allies were confronting a major nuclear power in Russia.
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