Rome, March 29, 2023 – Moscow is flexing its muscles. The Russian Armed Forces Exercises began this morning in three unspecified regions to test that new Yars ICBM. This was announced by the Moscow Ministry of Defense and explained that several thousand soldiers were involved in the exercise. “More than three thousand soldiers and about three hundred pieces of equipment,” he said in a Telegram statement.
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The Moskit, the Soviet-era supersonic anti-ship missile
The large-scale exercise of the Strategic Missile Forces involves the Omsk Formation and the Novosibirsk Formation, which are armed with ICBMs. L’RS-24 years – a modification of the rocket Topol-M – is the Russian strategic missile system, writes Tass, armed with an ICBM a solid propellant. It was developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology under the leadership of Russian Academy of Sciences member Yury Solomonov.
The maneuvers appear a few days after the further increase in voltage “Belarusian question”. Moscow hopes – said the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Ryabkov – that the announcement of its plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in the country makes the West understand the seriousness of the situation. “We hope that seriousness of this situation has been properly assessed by NATO officials and, more importantly, by the leaders and politicians of the Alliance’s key states, who strive to govern the world by the rules and policies they have formulated for themselves,” he said.