– We will now have to react in the right way. And while yesterday the part of the territory of Romania did not know what it means to be in our crosshairs, today we have to take certain measures to ensure safety – Putin said at a press conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Ciprasem. – The same will be the case Polish – he added.
He stressed that Russia does not do this on the first step, only reacts to US actions. – Do not take any action until you see the rockets on our neighboring areas, – Putin said.
The force Commander of Estonia: Patriot missiles may deter Russia
From may 12 officially operating the US missile shield installed in Romania. On the other hand, on May 13 in Redzikowo was a ceremonial inauguration of the construction of a missile defense system in Poland. The base interceptor missiles the US missile defense system is 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.
“These are not defensive systems”
Russia is forced to think about removing threats to national security-related the distribution in Europe missile defense system – said in mid-May, Vladimir Putin at a meeting with representatives of the defense industry.
Commenting on the shield installed in Romania, Putin said that the purpose of the deployment in Europe of elements of the US missile is not defense, but the strengthening of nuclear potential.
FILM: – America has its limitations, the United States does not seek war with Russia in response to “the limited penetration of Ukraine” – said the PAP American political scientist George Friedman.
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– 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, 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.
“Violation of the INF treaty”
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.
The construction of the missile defense shield. “It will change the status of safety”
He estimated it as an additional threat. He expressed the opinion that there is a violation of the INF Treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range missiles.
Putin said that the Russian proposals for cooperation with the US on missile defense has actually been rejected. According to him, the American side only proposed talks, and “all actions are unilateral in character.”
Start a new arms race?
replacing deployment at sea system Aegis ( on 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 surest safeguard against the emergence of armed conflicts on a large scale. “
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the system 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.
In Redzikowo near Slupsk symbolically launched construction of the Polish part of the American missile defense shield. The database created by the end of 2018 years. It is intended for storing and firing rockets surface-to-air SM-3. It’s part initiated by the US government program called European missile defense shield.
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