Russia announced that it successfully test-launched a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile yesterday at a time when Moscow-West tensions have sharply escalated over Ukraine. The missile was fired from a silo at 05:42 hrs IST at the Plesetsk state test cosmodrome in northwest Russia’s Arkhangelsk region. Russian 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. 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.
