Monday 23 May 2022 08:04 AM Ukraine war: Russia's space agency chief issues fresh nuclear threat to the West trends now
Russia will soon have 50 brand new nuclear missiles capable of reducing all enemies to a nuclear crater, the head of the country's space agency has warned.
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos and a staunch Putin ally, said dozens of new Sarmat-2 missiles - measuring 14 storeys tall and weighing 208 tons - will be deployed by autumn to menace Russia's enemies.
'It remains only to advise the aggressors to talk more politely with Russia,' he said.
As a demonstration of Sarmat's power, he showed off footage of a 26ft deep and 66ft wide hole caused by one of the missiles when fired without a warhead.
Russia will soon possess 50 Sarmat-2 nuclear missiles capable of turning enemies into a radioactive crater, head of space agency Roscosmos has warned (pictured, a crater made by a Sarmat missile launched without a nuclear warhead)
Dmitry Rogozin highlighted footage of a 26ft deep and 66ft wide crater caused by a Sarmat missile launched without a nuclear warhead (pictured) to illustrate his latest threat
He said: 'With a nuclear charge, such a crater at an enemy site will be…well, very large and very deep - and radioactive.
'And not just one, but exactly as many as the most powerful nuclear missile in the world will deliver to the territory of a fierce enemy.
'And we will soon have almost 50 such Sarmats [the missile is known in the West as Satan-2] on combat duty.
'It remains only to advise the aggressors to talk more politely with Russia.'
Rogozin, a former deputy prime minister and Putin super-loyalist, has made several recent threats of nuclear strikes against the West involving Satan-2.
For his latest threat, he used footage from Russian TV channel Zvezda, run by the Defence Ministry.
The Satan-2 missile is the height of a 14-storey tower block and weighs 208 tons, say the Russians.
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