Russia stages massive nuclear missile drills to rehearse ‘destroying the West in MINUTES’ in chilling warning from Putin

RUSSIA has staged nuclear missile drills rehearsing how it could destroy the West within minutes in another chilling warning by Vladimir Putin.

Footage shows the massive hypersonic ballistic missile launchers being transported through the forest in the Ivanovo region.

The Yars and Topol M missiles are some of Russia's deadliest weapons.

The terrifying thermonuclear Yars missile can blast targets at 15,000mph and carry six warheads.

Putin's warning drills come a day after one of his allies, Dmitry Rogozin, boasted Russia is set to deploy 50 of its "unstoppable" Satan-2 nuke.

Standing at the colossal height of a 14-storey tower block, the 208 ton RS-28 Sarmat missile is capable of striking targets at almost 16,000mph.

The world-ending nuke can also carry 15 warheads and has the potential to obliterate an area the size of the UK in a single blast.

Mad Vlad has issued various threats against the West most recently last week when he started deploying nuclear missiles toward its border with Finland.

Moscow has made it clear they will suffer the consequences of joining NATO, boasting they could wipe out Finland in "ten seconds".

Meanwhile, Putin's allies have supported his views also by issuing threats.

Yesterday Alexander Lukashenko said the West risks World War Three by supplying weapons to Ukraine.

In a letter to the UN Secretary-General, Lukashenko said Belarus "calls on the countries of the world to unite and prevent the regional conflict in Europe from escalating into a full-scale world war!".

And last week Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, boasted to schoolchildren deadly Satan-2 nuke can destroy "half of the US coast".

Rogozin made clear that “unstoppable” Satan-2 would “take up combat duty” this autumn.

And Yury Borisov deputy premier in charge of military development said Russia could use new-age laser weapons to disrupt Western satellites or Ukrainian drones.

Borisov said the new mobile system, Peresvet, was already deployed with Moscow’s forces.

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