Russian President Vladimir Putin inspected the military exercise via a video link from Moscow, Russia, on October 22, 2025. Alexander Kazakov/Sputnik/Reuters

Russia’s strategic nuclear forces carried out a readiness test supervised by the country’s President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, the Kremlin said.

“Today, we are conducting a planned – I want to emphasize, planned – nuclear forces command and control exercise,” Putin said in a video conference with the top military brass.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said the drills involved all three components of the nuclear triad: land, sea and air.

Videos shared by the state-owned military TV channel Zvezda showed the launch of a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia’s north and a Sineva ballistic mi

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