Late last week, Russia's military planned to launch a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on a test flight from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Imagery captured over the weekend from commercial satellites suggests the missile exploded before or during launch.

A missile is reported to have exploded in its launch silo, leaving a massive crater and causing significant damage to the test site.

Before and after satellite imagery showed the destruction caused at a facility on the outskirts of the Russian city of Toropets on Wednesday8.The governor of Russia’s Tver region, Igor Rudenya, said the fires causing the smoke were “the consequences of falling UAV debris” after an drone attack was repelled by Russian air defense forces.

A Russian RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile likely failed during a test earlier this month, according to arms experts and satellite imagery from the launch site. Maxar satellite images from Sept.

Satellite images of the ammunition depot near Tikhoretsk after the drone strike. Reports suggest that North Korean ammunition was stored at this russian base. Overall, russia lost around 60,000 tons in missiles and rockets in just the past 2 days. Billions of dollars gone and… pic.twitter.com/VHLGlfvTwu

A satellite overview of a launch site after the launch failure of a Russian RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, according to arms experts, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, September 21,

The RS-28 Sarmat, also known as Satan II, was designed to carry 16 independently targetable nuclear warheads to the U.S. and Europe.

Russia’s test launch of its RS-28 Sarmat Super-Heavy Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) has failed at the launch site in Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, the Open-source intelligence project MeNMyRC reported.