Russia’s RS-28 Sarmat ICBM has gone live, marking Moscow’s latest nuclear saber-rattling move in its intensifying standoff with the West amid the grinding Ukraine war. This month, multiple media outlets reported that Russia has operationalized its next-generation RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile system (ICBM), as confirmed by Yuri Borisov, general director of Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos. Initially slated for deployment by the end of 2022, the ICBM has been in the spotlight