Commander of the Russian strategic missile forces Sergei Karakayev said on 29 March that the Tagil and Novosibirsk missile units of the Russian strategic missile forces has been completely rearmed with Yars (NATO reporting name: SS-29 Yars) ground-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) systems. According to Karakayev, rearming of the Irkutsk and Yoshkar-Ola missile units continues. Rearming of Bologoye and Barnaul units will begin in 2020. 

The Yars is a mobile or stationary missile system with a solid-propellant intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) containing multiple warheads. It was developed on the basis of the Topol-M missile system in the 2000s. Russia started to deploy Yars missile systems in December 2009 when the system was accepted by the Strategic Missile Force for operational evaluation.