Deployment of U.S. Missile Defense in Europe Is Threat to Russia says Military Chief

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Deployment of U.S. Missile Defense in Europe Is Threat to Russia says Military Chief

A top Russian general said his country would view the planned deployment of U.S. missile defense components in eastern and central Europe as a security threat and take retaliatory measures, according to an article published Tuesday and quoted by AP. Yevgeny Buzhinsky, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s international military cooperation department, urged the United States and its allies to refrain from unilateral action and negotiate with Moscow.

“The deployment of missile defense near the Russian borders could pose a real threat to our deterrent forces,” Buzhinsky said in an article published in the daily Izvestia. “We would view that as an unfriendly gesture on behalf of the United States, some eastern European nations and NATO as a whole. Such actions would require taking adequate retaliatory measures of military and political character.”