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Russia has successfully tested a ballistic missile dubbed Satan Two, the country's defence ministry claims.

The weapon, also known as RS-28, was launched from the Plestek Cosmodrome and travelled 3,600 miles before hitting it's far-off target on the Kura test range late on Thursday, officials confirmed.

Footage released by the Russian Ministry of Defence showed the deadly rocket launch.

The weapon is said to be capable of delivering warheads of 40 megatons - 2,000 times the scale of destruction dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, experts from the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau said.

Three other submarines capable of carrying nuclear warheads also performed ballistic missile tests, while three bombers hit their "ground-based" targets with cruise missiles.

A statement by the Ministry said a missile was fired from a military truck around 800km north of Moscow. They also said two submarines aimed their missiles for the Okhotsk Sea, north of Japan and North Korea.

"[We] have carried out an exercise to manage its strategic forces...All objectives of the training have been successfully completed," the statement said.

In early September, Russia also test fired another two next-generation nuclear missiles from the Plestek Cosmodrome.

The tests come in the wake of fresh allegations by NATO officials that Russia has been misleading the alliance over the scope of its military training exercises in Belarus, claiming soldiers have been simulating attacks on western powers.

Some western officials have expressed concerns that parts of the Baltic states, which have large ethnic Russian minorities, could be seized by Moscow, as Crimea was in 2014.