Russia, exercises with intercontinental ballistic missiles

Russia has launched exercises - in three unspecified regions - with the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system (ICBM) to demonstrate its nuclear strength, following the suspension of Moscow's participation in the strategic arms control treaty with the United States . This was announced by the Moscow Defense Ministry, explaining that several thousand troops are involved in the exercise. "More than three thousand servicemen and about three hundred pieces of equipment," he said in a Telegram statement. In the large-scale exercise of the Strategic Missile Forces, the Omsk formation and the Novosibirsk formation, equipped with the ICBMs, are involved. The RS-24 Yars - a modification of the Topol-M missile - is the Russian strategic missile system, writes Tass, armed with a solid-propellant ICBM. It was developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology under the leadership of Russian Academy of Sciences member Yury Solomonov.