Russia orders more nuclear missiles

RUSSIA’S military has commissioned another batch of intercontinental ballistic missiles — nuclear weapons that officials boast can penetrate any prospective missile shield, reports said yesterday.

The announcement comes amid tensions between Moscow and Washington over US plans for missile defence sites in Poland and the Czech Republic.

The three new Topol-M missiles are capable of hitting targets more than 6,000 miles away and, mounted on a heavy off-road vehicle, are harder for an enemy to track down, officials said.