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The Russian military says it has successfully performed the first test of a new intercontinental ballistic ...

Russia said on Wednesday it has test-launched its new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a strategic weapon President Vladimir Putin said had no analogues elsewhere and would provide food for thought for those who try to threaten Russia. Putin was shown on TV being briefed by the military that the missile had been launched from Plesetsk in the country's northwest and hit

The Russian president said the weapon will force "all who are trying to threaten our country in the heat of frenzied, aggressive rhetoric to think twice."

President Putin says the new Sarmat missile is food for thought for those who try to threaten Russia.

Vladimir Putin was shown overseeing the launch by videoconference at the Kremlin

A senior U.S. defense official says training of Ukrainian personnel on American 155mm howitzers has begun in a European country outside of Ukraine, kicking off an effort to enable the Ukrainian army to use newly supplied U.S. artillery in the escalating battle for the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

LVIV, Ukraine — The Luhansk governor said Russian forces now control 80% of the region, which is one of two regions that make up the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.

A senior U.S. defense official says training of Ukrainian personnel on American 155mm howitzers has begun in a European country outside of Ukraine, kicking off an effort to enable the

The Luhansk governor said Russian forces now control 80% of the region, which is one of two regions that make up the Donbas in eastern Ukraine.

Russian state-owned space agency Roscosmos is planning to start serial shipments of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) Sarmat to the Russian strategic missile forces this fall, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.This fall, once the Sarmat flight and development tests are co ..