High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia's Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat ballistic missile exploded shows extensive damage.

Vladimir Putin has been left humiliated after his prized Satan-2 missile exploded at a testing facility. Russia 's only suitable missile testing site was destroyed as a result, handing a major setback to Moscow's development of the hypersonic warhead.

Open-source intelligence project MeNMyRC reported on Sept. 19 that a test launch of Russia’s RS-28 Sarmat Super-Heavy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) resulted in failure at the launch site in Plesetsk,

Russia plans to maintain defense spending at an historic high in 2025 and sees only slight declines in the following two years as President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine shows no sign of ending.

"We don't have much time. The next few months will be decisive in Russia's war against Ukraine and against freedom itself," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during the American Academy of Achievement awards ceremony.