Putin readies combat nuke for LAUNCH as Yars missile able to strike UK and US is locked and loaded in silo near Moscow | The Sun

VLADIMIR Putin has renewed his nuclear threat against the West by readying missiles for launch.

Video shows a huge Russian Yars rocket able to hit the UK and the US being loaded into a silo at a base near Moscow.



The intercontinental ballistic missile with a 7,500 mile range was installed in a silo launch pad using a special transport and loading unit. 

Putin was seen in late October overseeing the launch of a similar Yars nuclear missile on a mock attack on the West amid high tension in the war with Ukraine. 

In the drills, Russia reportedly practised its response to a Western nuclear attack and were aimed at targeting the UK and US. 

Fears are have been raised that the70-year-old tyrant could detonate a nuke as his forces face mounting loses in the disastrous Ukraine war.

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Russia is building up to more nuclear showboating as it marks the annual Strategic Missile Forces Day on 17 December. 

Missile force commander Colonel Alexei Sokolov made clear the latest exercise was aimed at sending a message to the West, with both the UK and US within range. 

“The importance of this operation lies in the fact that the missile will be put on combat duty on schedule,” he said. 

“The homeland will get another nuclear missile weapon, which will make it possible to solve any tasks at the strategic level.”

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Combat engineer Vadim Vyazovsky told TV Zvezda, the Russian defence ministry’s own channel: “I feel proud of Russia that my country is putting such products into service so that the Motherland can sleep well.”

The Kozelsk missile base is currently undergoing modernisation and a revamp, said reports.

The Yars is a modification of the Topol-M missile system, and was first deployed in 2009.

Video released during October's drills showed armed forces personnel in front of computers launching a one of the missiles.

Other footage showed a Sineva intercontinental ballistic missile being fired from a submarine in the Barents Sea and a TU-95 bomber that launched cruise missiles.

The Kremlin said that all tasks set for the exercise were fulfilled and all the missiles that were test-fired reached their designated targets.



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