A Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is test-fired as part of Russia’s nuclear drills from a launch site in Plesetsk, north-western Russia. Photograph: Russian Defence Ministry Press Service via AP
Russian president Vladimir Putin directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches, an exercise that came as his planned summit on Ukraine with US president Donald Trump
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