The Russian Aerospace Forces launched an expendable Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. This news was made known through an announcement by the Ministry of Defense of Russia.
"On Thursday, March 23 at 09:40 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Region, fighter crews of the Aerospace Forces of the Aerospace Forces launched a Soyuz-2.1a medium-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft for the benefit of the Russian Ministry of Defense," the publication said of the Russian Defense Ministry on its Telegram channel.
This is the fifth Russian rocket launch in 2023 and the third Soyuz launch from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. Last year, 13 of the 22 total launches took place at this point.
Medvedev "Returned"...
The Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, has threatened a missile attack on the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag) and the German Chancellor's office if Russian President Vladimir Putin is arrested.
This is the way the Russian official chose to comment on the statement of Germany's justice minister, who said that according to the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, the Russian president would be arrested if he came to Germany.
The relevant video was published by the Poll Number 3 channel on Telegram.
"Let's think - it's clear that this is a case that will never happen, but anyway let's imagine that something like this would happen. The current head of a nuclear state arrived on the territory of, say, Germany, and was arrested. What is this? A declaration of war against the Russian Federation! And in that case, all our media will fly to the German Federal Parliament of Germany, to the chancellor's office and neither will he. He understands that this is a cause of war, how could he declare that war;" Medvedev said.
Previously, he suggested the possibility of bombing the court in The Hague, which issued the arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, for "war crimes" in Ukraine.
In previous statements, the vice chairman of the Russian Security Council has expressed his concerns about the growing possibility of a nuclear war between the West and Russia.
Tensions with the Germans have risen mainly over his threats to destroy a tank factory that Berlin wants to build on Ukrainian territory.
