Radio Free Europe:

Russia’s Defense Ministry says it has informed President Vladimir Putin that the controversial new hypersonic, intercontinental-range Avangard missile system has been put into service.

The announcement is the latest public sign of Russian high-tech weapons-delivery efforts amid frayed diplomatic relations and discarded or threatened nuclear and other arms agreements with the West.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu informed Putin of the entry into combat duty of the first Avangard missile unit, the Defense Ministry said on December 27, and congratulated Russia’s Strategic Missile Force on “this remarkable event,” according to TASS.

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