Putin on missile defense: Russia must think about removing threats – Onet.pl

 
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  Vladimir Putin
 
 
 

Commenting on the shield installed in Romania officially operational since yesterday, Putin said that the purpose of the deployment in Europe of elements of the US missile defense is not, but the strengthening of nuclear potential. – These are not defensive systems, is part of the strategic nuclear potential of the United States moved to the periphery; In this case, the periphery is Eastern Europe – he said.

– and the people who take the appropriate decisions they should know that so far lived peacefully prosperous and safe. Now, after the deployment of missile defense elements, we will be forced to think about it, to remove the emerging threats to the security of the Russian Federation – he added.

Putin, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency said the rocket, which will be installed in Poland “can be easily used to deploy missiles of medium and short-range”. Where such conversion “takes place in an absolutely short period of time and we really will not be able to notice what is going on there” – he added. He rated it as an additional threat. He expressed the opinion that there is a violation of the INF Treaty (on the liquidation of medium-range missiles).

Putin said that Russian proposals for cooperation with the US on missile defense has actually been rejected. According to him, the American side proposed only conversation, and “all actions are unilateral in character.”

replacing the arrangement on sea ​​Aegis system (for ships based in Spain), and the elements of a missile shield in Romania and Poland, Putin said that are “additional steps to destabilize the international security system and start a new arms race.” He added that Russia will not turn up to the race, but will implement plans to rearm its army and fleet.

Putin assured that Russia will take all necessary steps to “ensure to maintain the strategic balance of forces, which is the surest safeguard against the emergence of armed conflicts on a large scale.”

Layout INF (Treaty on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces), the United States and the then Soviet Union concluded in 1987. The Treaty prohibits both sides possession, manufacture and testing of land-based ballistic missiles and maneuvering a range from 500 to 5 500 km.

Redzikowo: ceremonial inauguration of the construction of a missile defense system

In the presence of, among others, President Andrzej Duda, the defense minister Antoni Macierewicz and Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Sack in Redzikowo (Pomorskie) began the solemn inauguration of the construction of a missile defense system.

the foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of the base is also involved foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, who served as chief negotiator in talks with the United States on the missile defense shield. The American side also represents US Ambassador Paul Jones, commander of the US Navy in Europe Admiral Mark Ferguson, director of the US Missile Defense Agency wiceadm. James Syring and Deputy Secretary of State Frank Rose. Among the guests it is also the defense minister, Romania Mihnea Motoc.

Localized in Redzikowo base interceptor missiles the US missile defense system It is designed to protect US troops and NATO allies against ballistic missiles wystrzelonymi from the Middle East. You will find yourself in the rocket interceptor missiles and a radar tracking targets and fire control. The database will be ready for operation in 2018.

The investment is another step initiated in 2009. Program European part of the missile defense shield (Nato missile Defence System).

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