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Russia threatens to strike NATO facilities in Eastern Europe if US missile shield talks fail | Russia has threatened to strike U.S.-led NATO missile defence facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington's talks with Moscow about its plan to build a missile shield fail.
According to Fox News, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has also warned
that talks between Moscow and Washington on the topic are "close to a dead end."
During an international conference attended by senior U.S. and NATO officials,
the Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov said: "A decision to use destructive
force pre-emptively will be taken if the situation worsens". U.S. missile defense
plans in Europe have been one of the most difficult topics in US-Russian relations
for years. Makarov's statement does not imply an immediate threat, but aims to
put extra pressure on Washington to agree to Russia 's demands. Moscow has rejected
Washington 's claim that its missile defense plan is only aimed at dealing with
any Iranian missile threat, voicing fears that it will eventually become powerful
enough to undermine Russia 's nuclear deterrent. Moscow has proposed to run the
missile shield jointly with NATO, but the alliance has rejected that proposal.
The U.S.-NATO missile defense plans plan to use Aegis radars and interceptors
on ships and a powerful radar based in Turkey in the first phase, followed by
radar and interceptor facilities in Romania and Poland . NATO's Deputy Secretary
General Alexander Vershbow told the conference that the U.S.-led missile shield
is "not and will not be directed against Russia " and that Russia 's intercontinental
ballistic missiles are "too fast and too sophisticated" for the planned system
to intercept.
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