bombardment and it will end only one way. there will be nobody left in this area. they will be dead. or the children i am not talking about the children but the civilians will be eliminated and it s going to be on us. o reporter: matt rivers, cnn, lviv, ukraine. russia tested a intercontinental ballistic missile wednesday. the rs 28 dubbed satan 2 by nato is capable of carrying a umuch bigger nuclear payload president putin says it should make russia s enemies think twice. diet the timing, u.s. is not overly concerned about any security threat from the mis missile. obligations that plan to test this missile, defense department said today we did not deem the test a threat to the united states or its allies and the timing ask scope of russia s missile test do not influence
soviet-era model. russia claims it can carry multiple nuclear warheads and has a range of more than 6,800 miles, making it potentially capable of striking the u.s. russia says the missile was launched wednesday afternoon from northern russia, traveling across the country to a test site in the far east. the pentagon says the test was not a surprise. they provided advance notice of this launch. the defense department said today that we did not deem the test a threat to the united states or its allies. reporter: but a senior u.s. defense official still said the launch was not something that would be done by a responsible nuclear power in the current tense environment. as putin s war in ukraine drags on, russia appears to be determined to proceed with its advanced weapons. the u.s. canceled the scheduled icbm test earlier this month. we re at a very tenuous point. we wanted to make sure we were