FILE PHOTO: A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile system drives past an honour guard during a military parade on Victory Day in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2022. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
(Reuters) -Russia is testing the readiness of a missile unit that forms part of its strategic nuclear forces, the defence ministry said on Friday, in the latest of a series of warning signals to Ukraine and the West.
The test is taking place in the Tver region, northwest of Moscow, in the same week that NATO conducted its annual nuclear exercise and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy unveiled his "victory plan" for the war.
