Aerial view of the Nenoksa naval testing range.
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VLADIMIR Putin has expanded one of his nuclear weapons bases with new secured structures that could be used as missile launchpads.

Dramatic satellite images have captured ongoing construction activities within the highly secure military base of Nenoksa, where a tragic incident in which five individuals lost their lives following a nuclear-powered missile explosion occurred.

Aerial view of the Nenoksa naval testing range.
Satellite images show three new test facilities constructed at the Nenoksa naval facility in RussiaCredit: Google Earth
Aerial view of the Nenoksa naval testing range.
The area was covered with dense forest before 2023Credit: Google Earth
Satellite images showing expansion of a Russian naval missile testing site in Nyonoksa.

Three new facilities – each the size of a football field – can be seen at the centre of the naval testing site.

They have been constructed near a railway line that is thought to bring missiles and testing gear into Nenoksa.

The area, which before 2023 was forest, is now surrounded by double-barbed wire fences.

This extensive compound, situated about 40 miles west of Arkhangelsk in northern Russia, spans over 61,000 square meters and is heavily protected.

The construction work at the Russian military facility is reported to have started in 2023, as noted by the Barents Observer, which has been monitoring developments closely.

Several big containers, reportedly used to store missiles, can be seen in the pictures.

A dedicated launch pad with two missile containers can be seen in the centre.

Both launchers are directed towards the White Sea, the latest Google Earth images show.

Similar blue launcher containers can also be seen in other test facilities for missiles in Russia.

This includes the Kapustin Yar in the Astrakhan region and recent years, at Pankovo at Novaya Zemlya in the Arctic.

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The latter has been used by Rosatom for testing the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile under development.

Another launch area is located by the shore in the northwest outskirts of the Nenoksa test range seems to still be active.

There is no public information available revealing what kind of missile tests will take place at the new constructions that can be seen on the latest satellite images.

In 2019, five Rosatom experts were killed after they were exposed to radiation at the Nenoksa site.

American nuke experts saod the testing of a Russian nuclear cruise missile was to blame for a huge explosion at a military site.

Russia‘s state nuclear agency confirmed the deaths were caused by a blast, which left a further three people injured and sparked radiation fears.

The accident happened while testing “isotopic power sources in a liquid propulsion system”, state nuclear agency Rosatom said in a statement.

But US experts claim Rosatom may have been testing an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile, which Vladimir Putin claimed to be “invincible” against all existing and prospective defence systems.

Aerial view of the Nenoksa naval testing range.
Nenoksa naval testing range in 2025Credit: Google Earth
Sign with a missile illustration and Cyrillic text.
Radiation levels in the Russian city of Severodvinsk rose dramatically on August 8 as a result of the mysterious explosionCredit: Reuters
Vladimir Putin in a meeting.
Putin is thought to be building the new site to test missilesCredit: AFP

Russian officials initially tried to play down the radiation leak, saying the levels were normal.

But a spokeswoman for  Severodvinsk, a city close to the test site, said in a statement that a “short-term” spike in background radiation was recorded at noon Thursday.

In separate interviews, two experts said that a liquid rocket propellant explosion would not release radiation.

They said the explosion and radiation release could have resulted from a mishap during the testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile at a facility outside the village of Nyonoksa.

Neither the Defence Ministry nor Rosatom have identified the type of weapon that exploded during the test.

But Rosatom’s statement said the explosion occurred during tests of a “nuclear isotope power source,” which led observers to conclude it was the “Burevestnik” or “Storm Petrel,” a nuclear-powered cruise missile.

Nato has code-named the missile “Skyfall.”

The missile was first revealed by Russian President Putin in his 2018 state-of-the-nation address, along with other doomsday weapons.

Ankit Panda, an adjunct senior fellow with the Federation of American Scientists, said: “Liquid fuel missile engines exploding do not give off radiation, and we know that the Russians are working on some kind of nuclear propulsion for a cruise missile.”

Arkhangelsk is a city in the north-east of Russia and was once the country’s main seaport until 1703.

Missile launch.
Footage released by the Russian state news agency claims to show a test of the Burevetnik missile
Launch complex with tall lighting towers.
The Nenoksa base is the centre for the Navy’s missile testing
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