Putin ramps up WW3 fears as he launches NUCLEAR MISSILES in terrifying show of power

The Topol missile, the fastest in the world, was launched from a submarine in the Barents Sea off the Russian coast today as part of a series of ballistic tests.

Another was later shot from an island in the north-west of the country with its warhead hitting a simulated target, and a third missile - a nuclear-capable rocket - shot from a Pacific Fleet submarine in the Sea of Okhotsk, north of Japan.

The country’s Defence Ministry said in a statement the training warhead “struck a simulated target on the firing range on the Kamchatka peninsula”.

The RS-12M Topol is a single-warhead intercontinental ballistic missile, which entered service in 1985.

It has a maximum range of 10,000 km or 6,125 miles and can carry a nuclear warhead with a yield of up to 550 kilotons.

The launch comes as a time when relations between the US and Russia are at its lowest point in years following the collapse of a ceasefire in Syria.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu accused the West of trying to portray his government's military exercises as threats - claiming they are merely normal combat training manoeuvres.

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