Overview
- President Vladimir Putin oversaw the exercise by video link as General Valery Gerasimov reported on the operations.
- The maneuvers featured a Yars intercontinental missile launched from Plesetsk, a submarine-launched ballistic missile from the Barents Sea, and Tu-95 bombers firing long-range cruise missiles.
- Officials said all assigned tasks were completed during the readiness checks of command structures and units.
- Moscow did not disclose the number of systems involved, providing few details on the exercise’s scale.
- The event ran in parallel with NATO’s ongoing Steadfast Noon exercise, which involves about 70 aircraft and roughly 2,000 personnel, and it followed a U.S. decision to put a Putin–President Donald Trump meeting on hold.