Russia test-fires ballistic missile

MOSCOW: A Russian nuclear submarine on Tuesday successfully test-fired a ballistic missile from beneath the waters off Russia’s Pacific Coast, the military said.

The missile, launched from the Sea of Okhotsk by the Pacific Fleet submarine Podolsk, hit the designated target at the navy’s Chizha range on the Barents Sea coast in northern Russia some 6,000 kilometres away, the navy said in a statement carried by the Interfax-Military News Agency. —AP

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