Despite the fifth year of a full-fledged war against Ukraine and the declarations of world leaders on the unprecedented economic blockade of Moscow, key Russian nuclear-missile facilities have so far successfully avoided international sanctions.
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Despite the fifth year of a full-fledged war against Ukraine and the declarations of world leaders on the unprecedented economic blockade of Moscow, key Russian nuclear-missile facilities have so far successfully avoided international sanctions.
Despite the fifth year of full-scale war and unprecedented international sanctions, Russia continues to develop strategic weapons programmes, one of which remains the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-28 "Sarmat", a project that the Kremlin has used for years as a symbol of military power and an instrument of nuclear blackmail. In May 2026, Vladimir Putin once again promised to put Sarmat on alert until the end of the year. Work on the compl…