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Russia has test-fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile developed for the Strategic Rocket Forces (RVSN) from the Plesetsk space center in the Arkhangelsk region, a missile industry source told Interfax-Ukraine.

"This was the second experimental launch of the new missile," he said.The first launch of this missile on September 27, 2011 failed, as the missile crashed about 10 kilometers away from the launch site, he said.

The strategic missile force launched the first prototype of a new intercontinental ballistic missile at 10:15 a.m. Moscow time, Colonel Vadim Koval, an official with the Russian Defense Ministry’s Press Service and Information Department on RVSN, told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

"The launch was conducted using a mobile launch vehicle by RVSN combat units and the Aerospace Defense Forces," Koval said.He specified that the launch took place at the cosmodrome Plesetsk.