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"...Local authorities have yet to comment on the incident and there are reportedly no evacuation plans for the area's residents. The event took place in Yasny, Orenburg region, home to a cosmodrome and a missile forces base. ..."
Reference: www.the-express.com ."...Russia has reportedly test-fired a Zircon hypersonic missile on a target in Ukraine’s Sumy region — possibly the first launch from a ground-based platform. Ukrainian officials say the weapon, launched from Crimea’s Cape Chauda, struck critical infrastructure. ..."
Reference: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ."...“They know we have a nuclear submarine, the greatest in the world, right off their shore,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday as he traveled to Japan, reacting to Putin’s announcement of the Burevestnik test. “So, I mean, it doesn’t have to go 8,000 miles.”
“They’re not playing games with us. We’re not playing games with them either,” Trump continued. “We test missiles all the time, but you know, we do have a submarine, a nuclear submarine. We don’t need to go 8,000 miles. ..."
"...The Burevestnik, part of Russia's advanced weapons program which NATO designates as SSC-X-9 Skyfall, made headlines in 2019 after a failed test led to a deadly recovery mission in the Arctic. ..."
Reference: The Moscow Times ."...It was previously well understood that the Houthis were receiving targeting data for their missile and drone attacks on Israel and shipping in the Red Sea from both Russia and Iran, with IRGC Qods Force operatives based in Yemen acting as the conduit. The Iranian Khayyam satellite was jointly built with Russia, based on Kanopus-V imagery satellite, with the Iranian satellite likely to be operating within Russia’s own Kanopus-V constellation. The Iranians and Russians..."
Reference: maritime-executive.com ."...Vladimir Putin unleashed a missile strike to 'sink' a cargo ship amid unconfirmed Russian claims it was carrying British weapons for use by Ukraine.
Two Iskander-M ballistic missiles hit the Panama-flagged container ship MSC LEVANTE F - reportedly Swiss-owned - soon after it arrived in Odesa on March 1, after making a stop in Turkey.
Two port workers were believed to have been wounded ..."
Article Excerpt: "...A fire broke out at the Bryansk Chemical Plant, a facility in a western region of Russia around 75 miles from the border with Ukraine, that props up Moscow's military industry, Ukrainian publication Focus reported late on Monday, citing NASA satellite imagery.
The chemical plant produces gunpowder for Russia's Kh-59 cruise missiles. It also makes explosives and components for rocket fuel, including ammunition for barrel artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, aviation, and remote mining systems, according to the Odessa..."
Reference Source: www.newsweek.com
"...Ukraine's defence forces have struck the Kombinat Kristal oil storage facility in the city of Engels in Russia's Saratov Oblast. ...Ukrainian forces strike oil depot supplying Russian strategic aircraft used in missile attacks on Ukraine ..."
Reference: www.yahoo.com ."...Russia’s defense ministry vowed unspecified “retaliatory measures” after Ukraine launched US-supplied ATACMS missiles at the border region of Belgorod on Friday.
The ministry said earlier on Saturday that it had successfully downed eight of the tactical missiles as well as dozens of Ukrainian drones over the past day. ..."
"...Russia's Oreshnik missile can reportedly target most of Europe, US West Coast...the type of confusion and psychological impact that Putin sought to create and has likely achieved when Russia fired an experimental hypersonic ballistic missile, striking a weapons production plant in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. This was in retaliation against Ukrainian strikes on a Russian military facility in Bryansk with U.S. made long-range missiles called ATACMS, after President Biden had given Zelenskyy permission to do so. ..."
Reference: www.foxnews.com ."...On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that his forces had struck a factory in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a new, medium-range ballistic missile dubbed "Oreshnik." The strike, originally reported by Ukraine as an intercontinental ballistic missile, was conducted with "nuclear-free hypersonic equipment," according to the president. However, the capabilities of the now combat-tested missile has sparked concerns about the potential threats to Ukraine's allies if it were equipped with nuclear warheads. "Bomb shelters will not help," Medvedev said..."
Reference: www.newsweek.com ."...The Yars, which can be deployed in silos or mounted on mobile launchers, has a range of up to 11,000 kilometers and is capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads.
Russia has carried out a series of nuclear drills this year in what security analysts say are signals intended to deter the West from intervening more deeply in the war in Ukraine. ..."
"...Missile analyst Ralph Savelsberg breaks down public information about Iran's Fath-360 ballistic missile and how it might be used by Russia against Ukraine. ..."
Reference: breakingdefense.com .
"...North Korea continued a series of provocative maneuvers early Wednesday when, for the second time since Thursday, it fired a second round of short range ballistic missiles – a move experts say could be linked to the isolated country's suspected illicit supplying of arms to Russia ..."
Reference: www.france24.com ."...In March, the Group of Seven (G7) warned that they would impose coordinated sanctions on Iran if it carried out a missile transfer to Russia. This warning was repeated at NATO summit in Washington DC in July.
However, it is unclear what actions that administration of U.S. President Joe Biden might take. While Biden has repeatedly warned Iran not to take actions that would escalate the conflict in the Middle East, he has also refused to take any punitive steps against Iran for ignoring those warnings. ..."
"Iran recently transferred short-range ballistic missiles to Russia to use in the war ...provision of ballistic missiles marks a significant escalation of Iran’s support for Russia. Iran has already provided Russia with hundreds of drones that Russian forces have used in their war against Ukraine, and Russia has been building a drone-manufacturing facility in country with Iran’s help, CNN has reported. Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations denied the transfer had been carried out in statement to CNN. ..."
Reference: www.cnn.com .
"...If the U.S. implements such plans, we will consider ourselves free from the previously imposed unilateral moratorium on the deployment of intermediate and shorter-range strike weapons, including increasing the capability of the coastal forces of our navy,” Putin said. He added that Moscow’s development of suitable systems is “in its final stage.” Both Washington and Moscow have in recent weeks signaled readiness to deploy intermediate-range ground-based weapons that were banned for decades under a 1987 U.S.-Soviet treaty. The U.S. pulled out of the agreement in 2019, accusing Moscow of conducting missile tests that violated it. ..."
Reference: abcnews.go.com .
"...In the report, the monitors concluded that the debris was from a Hwasong-11 series missile and is in violation of the arms embargo on North Korea... which has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs. In their report, the monitors say they (quote) "could not independently identify from where the missile was launched, nor by whom." Information about the missile’s trajectory - supplied by Ukraine - suggests the missile was launched from Russia, the report says. ..."
Reference: www.yahoo.com ."Ukraine said it had intercepted all 31 missiles fired at the capital. But debris injured at least 13 people and damaged several buildings. ..."
Reference: www.nytimes.com ."Poland demanded an explanation from Russia on Sunday after one of its missiles strayed briefly into Polish airspace during a major missile..."
Reference: www.pbs.org .
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