Russia fails to test new strategic missile ahead of Ukraine invasion anniversary

Russia failed to test a new “Sarmat” intercontinental ballistic missile before the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. The launch took place in the context, if not during, of US President Joe Biden’s visit to Kiev. About this in reference to two unnamed US officials informed CNN channel.
Russian authorities informed the United States in advance of the test, but then did not report the launch’s success. President Vladimir Putin did not mention him in his message to the Federal Assembly on Tuesday. At the same time, he paid great attention to the Russian strategic forces, the basis of which the missile should become in the near future. In the army, the Sarmat is to replace the Ukrainian-made Voyevoda missiles developed in Soviet times at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau in Dnepropetrovsk.
It is assumed that the silo-based heavy ballistic missile will carry up to ten nuclear warheads. Its development has been underway since 2011, in 2021 it should already have entered service with the Red Banner Missile Division in the city of Uzhur in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
The first, so far only successful test launch of the Sarmat was carried out from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on April 20, 2022. In November, Vladimir Degtyar, head of the rocket development company, Makeev’s GRTs, announced that it had been put into mass production.