What is Russia up to this time?

As Ukrainian intelligence officers managed to find out, the launch could be carried out on the night of May 19, 2025.

Russia's main goal is to exert demonstrative pressure and intimidate Ukraine, as well as EU and NATO member states.

According to preliminary data, the aggressor country will carry out a "training and combat" launch of an RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile from the Yars complex.

The launch of a missile equipped with a training ammunition from a mobile ground-based complex was ordered to be carried out by the 433rd regiment of the 42nd division of the 31st army of the strategic missile forces of the aggressor state, the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine said in a statement.

In addition, it was possible to learn that the launch site is an area near the settlement of Svobodny in the Sverdlovsk region of Russia.