High-resolution satellite images of the launch pad at Russia's Plesetsk test site, where the RS-28 Sarmat ballistic missile exploded shows extensive damage.

Vladimir Putin has been left humiliated after his prized Satan-2 missile exploded at a testing facility. Russia 's only suitable missile testing site was destroyed as a result, handing a major setback to Moscow's development of the hypersonic warhead.

Russia’s plans for their ‘doomsday’ hypersonic missiles have been delayed for years after the Satan-2 missile exploded during a test launch. ‌The huge detonation destroyed Russia’s only site suitable for testing the doomsday hypersonic rocket,