Moscow [Russia], April 20 (ANI/Xinhua): Russia announced that it successfully test-launched a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday at a time when Moscow-West tensions have sharply escalated over Ukraine.
The missile was fired from a silo at 15:12 Moscow Time (1212 GMT) at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in northwest Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, the country’s Defense Ministry said.
The training warheads reached a given area at the Kura test ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula and the tasks were completed in full, it said in a statement.
After the test, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the new missile complex has “the highest tactical and technical characteristics and is able to overcome all modern means of anti-missile defense.”
Sarmat will strengthen the combat potential of the Russian Armed Forces, protect Russia from external threats, and “make those who, in the heat of frenzied and aggressive rhetoric, try to threaten our country think,” he said in an online meeting with top defense officials. (ANI/Xinhua)
Russia properly notified US of ICBM Test, US does not deem it threat: Pentagon
Washington [US], April 20 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia properly notified the United States of its intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test launch, and Washington does not deem it a threat to its security, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing the Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
“Russia properly notified the US under its New Start treaty obligations that it planned to test this ICBM,” Kirby said.
The test launch was routine and not surprising, and the United States does not deem it a threat, the official reportedly noted. (ANI/Sputnik)
