Russia deploys ‘Yars ICBM’ near Ukraine-Belarus border

Russia Ministry of Defense announced that Yars Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) has been deployed in in the city of Kozelsk in the Kaluga region, close to the border of Ukraine-Belarus, in central Russia. Ministry stated that the Kozelsk missile formation is the first area to be equipped with the Yars missile system with a range of 10 thousand kilometers.
Also within the scope of the “Union State” agreement with Belarus, Russian planes, which carried out flights with strategic bombers in the region last month, also made long-term flights on the Belarus-Poland border. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently announced that they could enter a major war with Russia. Russia’s placing of missiles on the border was described as intimidation to Ukraine.