The Cabinet of Ministers terminated the agreement with the Russian government on extending the life of the strategic missile system “Satan”. The reason is a change in the circumstances of his action.
This was told by the representative of the government in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnichuk. An agreement to extend the service life was signed in 2006 in Moscow.
Ukraine will not serve the Russian missile system “Satan”
Melnichuk announced the termination of the agreement between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Russian government to extend the life of the 15P118M Satan missile system.
The agreement has been terminated due to a significant change in the circumstances of its operation.
These changes exclude the maintenance of 15P118M strategic missiles in service in Russia by the main developer, namely the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau named after Yangel, and the manufacturer, the Yuzhnoye Machine-Building Plant named after Makarov.
Briefly about the missile system “Satan”
- The 15P118M missile system (according to the Western classification SS-18, “Satan”) is a third-generation Soviet strategic missile system with an intercontinental ballistic missile. In Russia, it is marked RS-20V “Voevoda”.
- It was developed by Yuzhnoye Design Bureau named after Yangel. The complex was mass-produced at the Makarov Southern Machine-Building Plant.
- It was put into service in the period 1988 – 1992. The initial warranty period was 15 years.
- The mass of the intercontinental ballistic missile is 211 tons. It is capable of carrying ten nuclear warheads of 0.5 megatons at a distance of up to 11,000 kilometers.
- In 2014, Russia announced that they were no longer dependent on Ukraine for the maintenance of the complex.
