Russia is planning a "coaching" launch of an RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile in a single day on Could 19, Ukraine's navy intelligence (HUR) reported on Could 18.
In keeping with the company, the missile will probably be outfitted with a "coaching" warhead, and the transfer is meant to intimidate Ukraine, in addition to EU and NATO member states.
The potential launch of the nuclear-capable missile follows peace talks in Istanbul on Could 16 and comes simply hours earlier than a scheduled telephone name between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.
The launch is ready to happen close to the village of Svobodny in Sverdlovsk Oblast, roughly 100 kilometers northeast of Yekaterinburg, in accordance with HUR.
The company didn’t specify what the potential goal of a potential assault may be.
Yars, or RS-24, is a strategic solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile system adopted by Russia in 2009. It has a claimed vary of 11,000 kilometers and, when outfitted with a fight warhead, an explosive energy equal to one million tons of trinitrotoluene (TNT).
The Kyiv Unbiased couldn’t confirm all of the claims.
The potential launch echoes Russia's use of an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) in an assault on Dnipro on Nov. 21, 2024, which adopted the lifting of U.S. and U.Ok. restrictions on long-range Ukrainian strikes inside Russia.
That strike was additionally adopted by a Russian media marketing campaign aimed toward eroding Western help for Ukraine.
The Kyiv IndependentTim Zadorozhnyy