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Missile test by Russia

Moscow March 27. Russia today test-fired an SS-25 intercontinental ballistic missile.

The ``Topol'' missile, fitted with a dummy warhead, was fired from the Plesetsk launch centre in the northwest of the country and hit its designated target on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the far-east, a military spokesman said.

``The strategic rocket forces have again demonstrated the reliability of Russia's nuclear shield,'' Colonel-General Nikolai Solovtsov told the ITAR-Tass news agency.

The ``Topol'' has been in service for 18 years and is a main component of Russia's nuclear deterrent.

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