MOSCOW, November 22. /TASS/. Another RS-24 Yars solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been loaded into a silo launcher at Russia’s Kozelsk missile unit, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

The ministry published a video of the process, which takes several hours.

"An intercontinental ballistic missile is being loaded into the silo launcher by the hydraulic mechanism of a special transport and loading unit. Technological operations take several hours," the ministry said.

The ministry also informed that it had created infrastructure for training and recreation of the personnel.

The Kozelsk missile formation was the first unit in the Russian Strategic Missile Force to be rearmed with silo-based Yars ICBMs.

"Implementation of the 2023 plans for rearming the Strategic Missile Force with Yars missile systems will increase combat capabilities of our country’s strategic nuclear forces," the ministry said.

The RS-24 Yars is a Russian strategic missile system comprising a mobile or silo-based solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile with MIRVed (multiple independently targetable vehicle) warheads. The Yars is a modification of the Topol-M missile system. Russia started deploying Yars ICBM systems in 2009 when the Yars launcher was accepted for experimental combat duty in the Strategic Missile Force.