A Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a military spacecraft was launched from the Plesetsk spaceport, the press service of the Russian defense ministry said on Thursday.

"At 04:09 a.m. Moscow time on Thursday, November 25, Russia’s aerospace forces successfully launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a spacecraft in the Russian defense ministry’s interests from the ministry’s Plesetsk spaceport in the Arkhangelsk region," it said.