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| US believes Russia had failed intercontinental ballistic missile test around when Biden was in Ukraine |
| 2023-02-22 |
| [CNN] Russia carried out a test of an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears to have failed around the time President Joe Biden was in Ukraine on Monday, according to two US officials familiar with the matter. Russia notified the United States in advance of the launch through deconfliction lines, one official said. Another official said that the test did not pose a risk to the United States and that the US did not view the test as an anomaly or an escalation. The test of the heavy SARMAT missile — nicknamed the Satan II in the West and capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads — appears to have failed, officials said. It has been successfully tested before and had this one worked, US officials believe Russian President Vladimir Putin would have highlighted the test in his State of the Nation address on Tuesday. Instead, Putin made no mention of the launch in the speech that lasted an hour and 45 minutes. He did, however, formally declare that Russia will be suspending his country’s participation in the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States, imperiling the last remaining pact that regulates the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals. CNN initially reported the apparent test occurred while Biden was in Ukraine based off information from sources. After this story first published, one of the officials said the test occurred just before Biden was in the country. The second source had told CNN that the test was on Monday without providing any more specific timing. The timing of the test suggests that the US and Russia were communicating through several different channels earlier this week for deconfliction purposes — US officials also notified the Russians on Sunday night, hours before Biden’s visit to Kyiv, that the president would be making the trip to the Ukrainian capital, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday. |
| Posted by:Ebbains Threrenter5475 |
| #7 Russia 'carried out intercontinental ballistic missile test' while Joe Biden was in Ukraine on Monday - but it failed and 'didn't pose risk to US' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-02-22 11:48 |
| #6 Remember: Elynskyyy is supposed to be 5'8" Side by side, makes Brandon 6'8" And everyone else in the room 7'0"+ |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-02-22 11:43 |
| #5 Darth Brandon put on his aviators and threw a bottle of whiskey at it.... ...never left the silo. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-02-22 11:24 |
| #4 Milley was unavailable for comment. He was on the phone. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-02-22 10:59 |
| #3 Too bad they didn't take him out with 1. |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-02-22 09:49 |
| #2 Since Biden’s trip also took extensive planning curious if he timed it to be on the date of the launch to demonstrate he had cojones. |
| Posted by: Slenter Panda4300 2023-02-22 07:57 |
| #1 ...It takes weeks for us to do an ICBM livefire, I'm guessing that at the very least the Russians need the same amount of time. Put another way, the SATAN II test was probably scheduled long before we told them Biden was coming. The question here is - given the failure - was it originally scheduled for that day, or did somebody order it launched whether it was ready or not. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-02-22 06:34 |