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Russia announces new nuclear missile ready to launch by end of year

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 57 words
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Russia announces new nuclear missile ready to launch by end of year RUSSIA Issued on: Modified: Share In a televised announcement on May, 12, Vladimir #Putin announced the Sarmat would be ready for combat by the end of the year.

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What happened

Russia announces new nuclear missile ready to launch by end of year RUSSIA Issued on: Modified: Share In a televised announcement on May, 12, Vladimir #Putin announced the Sarmat would be ready for combat by the end of the year.

Why it matters

This comes a few days after he said the war in #Ukraine was close to an end.

Common ground

The clearest point to anchor on is this: In a televised announcement on May, 12, Vladimir #Putin announced the Sarmat would be ready for combat by the end of the year.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 2 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In a televised announcement on May, 12, Vladimir #Putin announced the Sarmat would be ready for combat by the end of the year.”
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Sources provide conflicting timelines for the Sarmat's combat readiness. Al Jazeera reports Putin said it would enter service 'at the end of the year', while another web result explicitly states Putin says it will be combat-ready by 'the end of 2026'. Meduza further notes that failed tests in 2024 have prevented the 2023 goal from being met.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Avangard (Russian: Авангард, "Vanguard"; previously known as Objekt 4202, Yu-71 and Yu-74) is a Russian hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV). It can be carried as a multiple independently targetable ree…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_veh…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The foreign policy of Vladimir Putin concerns the policies of the Russian president Vladimir Putin with respect to other nations. He has held the office of the President previously from 2000 to 2008, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_Vladimir_Put…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The RS-28 Sarmat (Russian: РС-28 Сармат, named after the Sarmatians; NATO reporting name: SS-X-29 or SS-X-30), often colloquially referred to as Satan II by media outlets, is a three-stage Russian sil…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-28_Sarmat
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Claim 2: “he said the war in #Ukraine was close to an end.”
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Multiple independent news organizations (NY Post, Al Jazeera, The Guardian) all report that Vladimir Putin signaled or suggested that the war in Ukraine is coming to an end or winding down.
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web search NEUTRAL — Zelenskyy’s comments came after Vladimir Putin said he thinks the Ukraine war is winding down, hours after he had vowed to defeat Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years and e…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/10/vladimir-putin…
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web search NEUTRAL — Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing a wave of anxiety in Moscow about the war in Ukraine, which has killed hundreds of thousands.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2026/05/09/putin-s…
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web search NEUTRAL — Vladimir Putin has signalled that his country’s war with Ukraine may be ‘coming to an end’, as the Russian president again blamed the West for prolonging the fighting through military support to Kyiv.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/10/putin-hints-at-endi…
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