It is also a great platform to show the skill sets and expertise of our strategic weapons maintenance personnel and of our missile crews who maintain an unwavering vigilance to defend the homeland,” Col. “This scheduled test launch is demonstrative of how our nation’s ICBM fleet illustrates our readiness and reliability of the weapon system. Bryan Titus, vice commander of Space Launch Delta 30, was the launch decision authority. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo., and 91st Missile Wing at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., helped support the test launch, while the Space Force’s Col. The ICBM reentry vehicle traveled approximately 4,200 miles to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, AFGSC announced in a press release.Īirmen from the 625th Strategic Operations Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., and Sailors from the Navy’s Strategic Communications Wing executed the launch on board a Navy E-6B Mercury aircraft using the Airborne Launch Control System.Īirmen from the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont., 90th Missile Wing at F.E.
The launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., took place at 12:49 a.m. 16, several days after delaying the test to avoid stoking tensions with China. Separately, the Russian defence ministry said that Moscow had destroyed six military facilities in Ukraine, including five depots containing ammunition, rockets and artillery weapons.Air Force Global Strike Command test-launched an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile Aug. "There aren't any problems with fuel in the region and there won't be any," Gladkov said.Įarlier this week, explosions could be heard from an arms depot in Belgorod but the authorities did not provide any clear explanation for the blasts.īelgorod lies around 40 kilometres (25 miles) from Russia's border with Ukraine and some 80 kilometres from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, which has been pummelled by Russian forces since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine on February 24. Long lines of cars waited at filling stations but the governor urged residents not to panic buy, saying there was enough petrol. Russian energy giant Rosneft, which owns the facility, said it had evacuated staff from the premises. Some 170 firefighters were battling to put out the enormous blaze, which started around 6 am (0300 GMT), the emergencies ministry said.Ī massive fire was raging, with black and white smoke billowing overhead, a video released by the ministry showed.
Two employees at the storage facility were injured in the fire, he said in another post. "There was a fire at the petrol depot because of an air strike carried out by two Ukrainian army helicopters, which entered Russian territory at a low altitude," Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on messaging app Telegram. The strike in the Russian town of Belgorod marked the first time Russia has reported a Ukrainian airstrike on its territory since the conflict began. In a possible hamper to the peace talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials which resumed via video, Moscow warned that the helicopter attack on the fuel depot would hamper negotiations.Īfter over a month of a military campaign that has reduced parts of Ukraine to rubble, Moscow said in peace talks earlier this week it would scale back attacks on the capital Kyiv and the city of Chernigiv. The announcement came on the 37th day of Russia's military campaign in Ukraine, with thousands killed and more than 10 million displaced in the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Ukrainian helicopters have bombed a fuel storage depot in western Russia sparking a huge fire, the regional governor said Friday, in the first reported air strike by Kyiv on Russian soil.
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