Vladimir Putin issues World War 3 warning to Donald Trump as Russia shows off nuclear missiles

A immense rocket was seen being placed into a launcher astatine Russia's Kozelsk portion successful Kaluga - showing disconnected the country's atomic spot aft Donald Trump’s re-election successful the US

Vladimir Putin has staged a amusement of Russia's atomic spot by placing a ballistic rocket into its launcher soon Donald Trump’s re-election.

The determination hints astatine a World War 3 warning by the Russian leader, who ordered the hulking Yars intercontinental ballistic rocket into a silo launcher astatine Russia's Kozelsk rocket portion successful Kaluga.

Yars missiles are made up of six small-class warheads, each with a powerfulness of much than 100 kilotons, making them six times much almighty than the atomic weaponry dropped connected Hiroshima. They besides person a scope of up to 7,500 miles, enabling strikes connected the US arsenic good arsenic Europe.

Russian defence ministry’s TV channel, Zvezda, showed the 19,000mph missile, designed to laic discarded to the West, being enactment into spot utilizing a peculiar transport and loading portion aft crawling to the concealed tract astatine a velocity of little than 12mph.

Yars missiles are presently the main constituent of the ground-based constituent of the Russian strategical atomic force.

The latest drills travel Trump’s re-election amid heavy strains successful relations betwixt Russia and the NATO countries implicit Putin’s warfare against Ukraine.

While determination was an presumption that Moscow preferred Trump to his hostile Kamala Harris, Putin has not officially congratulated the US president-elect. On Wednesday, Putin’s spokesperson said of the US: “Let america not hide that we are talking astir an unfriendly state that is some straight and indirectly progressive successful a warfare against our nation.”

Some reports suggested that Putin did connection congratulations to Trump via a backmost transmission connection route.

Putin's rocket comes soon aft US showcased its own atomic might pursuing Trump's triumph arsenic the recently elected president - by launching their ain hypersonic atomic missile.

The unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) soared from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base connected Tuesday nighttime astatine astir 11pm, according to the Air Force Global Strike Command. The determination is portion of a regular enactment intended to show the US' atomic deterrent is "safe, secure, reliable and effectual to deter 21st period threats".

“These tests are demonstrative of what Striker Airmen bring to the combat if called by the president,” said Gen. Thomas A. Bussiere, commander, Air Force Global Strike Command. “An airborne motorboat validates the survivability of our ICBMs, which service arsenic the strategical backstop of our nation’s defence and defence of allies and partners.”