Russia: DM Shoigu holds minute's silence for Sinai crash victims

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu started a video conference in Moscow, Tuesday, by observing a minute of silence for the 224 victims who lost their lives when a passenger plane crashed in Egypt at the weekend. The meeting was aimed at reporting on the performance of "the Russian nuclear triad" of missiles launched from the land, dropped from the air and fired from the sea. Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu stated that "all designated targets were hit and their precision was with established." The leader of the Russian Armed Forces confirmed that "Strategic Missile Forces performed a launch of a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk cosmodrome". Elsewhere Tu-160 Strategic bombers hit "ground targets at the Pemboy and Kura ranges using cruise missiles." Finally, submarines the Bryansk and the Podolsk "launched ballistic missiles from underwater positions in the maritime zones of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Barents Sea," Shoigu reported.