US officials believe Russia had a failed intercontinental ballistic missile test while President Biden was in Ukraine. The US was notified in advance.
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.
CNN has asked Russia’s embassy in Washington for comment. Putin has announced successful ICBM tests in the past, including last April, just months after Russia invaded Ukraine. That test was also for the SARMAT missile which was first unveiled in 2016 and said by Russian state media to have a range exceeding 11,000 kilometers . The missile can carry a warhead weighing 100 tons and was designed as a successor to the R-36M Voevoda ICBM.
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