UNITED NATIONS, October 26. /TASS/. The United Nations relies on the fact that Russia has informed the United States and other countries about the drills of its strategic nuclear forces, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a briefing on Wednesday.
"We’ve seen the press reports that, I think, the Russian authorities had notified the United States and others that the exercises were taking place but no other comment," Dujarric said.
As part of the training, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome and a Sineva ballistic missile from the Barents Sea at the Kura test site in Kamchatka. Two Tu-95MS long-range planes were involved in the exercise. Both fired cruise missiles. According to the Kremlin’s website, all tasks were completed in full and all missiles hit their targets, confirming the expected characteristics.