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The IAEA chief warned North Korea has made “very serious” progress in expanding its nuclear arsenal, with intensified work at Yongbyon’s facilities and satellite indications of a new enrichment plant nearing operation, potentially boosting the regime’s stockpile toward around 50 warheads and advancing ICBM capability despite sanctions.
Russia declares Nobel Peace Prize-winning newspaper editor Dmitry Muratov a foreign agent; Russia deploys advanced intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) known as Sarmat, capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads; Ukrainian forces break through a major Russian defensive line in the south; Denmark caps the number of Russian diplomats allowed at the Copenhagen embassy; Ukraine conducts drone attacks on Russian military targets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to deploy new Sarmat launchers with a super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on combat duty. Putin also claimed that about half of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces units are equipped with the latest Yars thermonuclear ICBMs and that SMFR is allegedly being rearmed with modern missile systems with a hypersonic warhead called Avangard. The Russian dictator also claimed that the Russian forces have been using advanced armoured vehicles, air defence and electronic warfare systems, and missile and rocket systems in the war against Ukraine.