Putin readies combat nuke for LAUNCH as Yars missile able to strike UK and US is locked and loaded in silo near Moscow

VLADIMIR Putin today renewed his nuclear threat against the West by readying missiles for launch. A video shows the installation of a huge Russian Yars rocket able to hit the UK and the US into a silo at a base near Moscow. East2WestA Yars missile being readied for deployment[/caption] Vladimir Putin was seen in late October overseeing the launch of a similar Yars nuclear missile on a mock attack on the West amid high tension in the war with Ukraine.  In the drill, Russia allegedly practiced its response to a Western nuclear attack and were aimed at targeting the UK and US.  Russia is building up to more nuclear showboating as it marks the annual Strategic Missile Forces Day on 17 December.  The Yars intercontinental ballistic missile with a 7,500 mile range was installed in a silo launch pad using a special transport and loading unit.  The “complicated technological operations” took a few hours.  Division commander Col. Alexei Sokolov made clear the exercise was aimed at sending a message to the West, with both the UK and US within range.  “The importance of this operation lies in the fact that the next missile will be put on combat duty on schedule,” he said.  “The homeland will get another nuclear missile weapon, which will make it possible to solve any tasks at the strategic level.” Combat engineer Vadim Vyazovsky told TV Zvezda, the Russian defence ministry’s own channel: “I feel proud of Russia that my country is putting such products into service so that the Motherland can sleep well.” The Kozelsk missile is undergoing modernisation and a revamp, said reports. The Yars is a modification of the Topol-M missile system, and was first deployed in 2009.