Putin's secret missile base ‘revealed' where Russia 'could hit London with nukes in 8mins’

A secretive Russian military deployment in Belarus “linked to Vladimir Putin’s feared Oreshnik nuclear-capable missile programme” has been exposed by opposition investigators. They traced a massive military train from Russia’s main missile-testing centre to a newly built base near the Ukrainian border.

The “unstoppable” weapon has been reportedly deployed in Belarus since December, but its location has not been officially disclosed. From Belarus territory, an Oreshnik launch could hit London in eight minutes, far shorter than the time it would take from its launch site in Kapustin Yar in southern Russia, according to Moscow sources.

Belarusian railway monitoring group BELZHD_Live says a large Russian military contingent remains stationed at the former Krichyov-6 airbase in eastern Belarus after arriving from the Kapustin Yar missile range late last year.

The site, officially described as a civilian “logistics centre”, lies in Belarus’s Mogilev region, just a few miles from the Russian border and around 240 miles from Kyiv in a straight line.

According to transport documents obtained by the investigators, a military train carrying 61 wagons of equipment, supplies and ammunition arrived at the base between December 20 and December 29, as well as specialist personnel.

The train departed on the 1,100-mile route from Kapustin Yar in Russia’s Astrakhan region – a sprawling missile-testing complex closely associated with the Oreshnik complex.

Railway records reportedly show the shipment was sent by Russia’s 4th State Central Interservice Test Range, a military formation directly associated with the missile facility.

The train consisted of 54 flatbed wagons carrying military equipment, six covered wagons loaded with supplies, a separate ammunition wagon, and passenger carriages transporting troops.

After arriving at Krichyov I station, the secret cargo was reportedly shunted directly to the former airbase using a newly built rail spur constructed inside the heavily guarded site. It has never left.

The delivery coincided with claims by Belarus that it had received the “unstoppable” Oreshnik missile from Putin, and it was engaging in “combat patrol missions”.

Satellite imagery and construction records reviewed by the opposition researchers indicate the Krichyov-6 site has undergone a rapid transformation.

An abandoned Soviet-era airbase, it has been fitted with a dedicated railway branch, cargo-handling facilities, loading ramps, floodlit operational areas and a remotely controlled rail junction connected directly into Belarus’s national dispatch network.

The researchers argue that the scale and sophistication of the infrastructure far exceed what would normally be required for a civilian logistics facility.

Instead, they believe the site was specifically designed to receive military cargoes, equipment and ammunition away from public view.

But the investigators do not claim to have identified actual Oreshnik launchers at the base and stop short of saying the missile system has definitely been deployed there.