NATO criticizes new Russian missiles near Poland, Lithuania

But, he said, there were no current threats against Finland, which shares a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) border with Russian Federation. Moscow has also complained strongly against the deployment of Nato’s military units near Russia’s borders. “The alliance is a truly aggressive bloc, so Russian Federation does what it has to do”.

John Kirby, the current US State Department spokesman has said that the deployment of ballistic missiles so close to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation borders threatens to destabilize security in all of Europe.

Victor Kuzminkov, a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in an interview on Monday that it is hard to imagine that Russia will concede sovereignty over the islands, called the northern territories in Japan.

Officials in Moscow and Tokyo say they are making a renewed push to resolve the dispute, and a planned visit to Japan in December by Russian President Vladimir Putin is now the focus for those efforts.

Viktor Ozerov, chairman of the defense committee in the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament, said in remarks reported by RIA news agency that Russia was forced to react to the planned us missile shield in eastern Europe.

Reuters quoted Viktor Ozerov, the chairman of the defense committee in the upper house of Russia’s parliament, as saying Monday that Moscow will deploy nuclear-capable Iskander missile systems and S-400 surface-to-air missiles in Kaliningrad.

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Ukraine’s Ambassador to Finland, whose country has experienced firsthand Russia’s willingness to alter its borders, tweeted a photo of a ruined country log cabin with the ironic caption ‘Russia’s borders end nowhere’.

“We need to take counter measures … to pose a threat to rocket systems that are threatening to us”, he told Stone in the director’s latest controversial offering, “Ukraine On Fire”.

Viktor Ozerov, head of the defense committee in the upper house of Russia’s Parliament, more specifically stated that USA missile shield deployment in Europe prompted Russia’s move. AP material published by LongIsland.com, is done so with explicit permission. This includes the preparation of derivative works of, or the incorporation of such content into other works. More friendliness from Trump could therefore result in more civilian deaths.

However, Assoc Prof Patrikeeff told The New Daily the surveillance operations of the Russian intelligence services never went away and the reorganisation is more likely focused on efficiency.