Washington is planning to station long-range missiles in Europe again. Moscow wants to respond.
The Kremlin has indirectly threatened the West with a harsh response to the stationing of long-range American weapons in Europe. “Of course” Moscow will respond to this stationing, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in response to a question from a Russian television journalist. “There has always been a paradoxical situation: the USA has stationed missiles of various ranges and calibers, and traditionally they have always been aimed at our country.” Russia, in turn, has aimed its missiles at targets in Europe.
“Our country is in the crosshairs of American missiles in Europe,” Peskov was quoted as saying by the state agency Tass. “We have been through all this before, it has happened before.” But Russia has the ability to deter these missiles. “But the potential victims are the capitals of these states,” he added threateningly.
On the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington this week, it was announced that from 2026 onwards the USA will again station weapons systems in Germany that reach as far as Russia. These will include Tomahawk cruise missiles with a range of up to 2,500 kilometres, which can technically also be equipped with nuclear weapons, as well as SM-6 anti-aircraft missiles and newly developed hypersonic weapons. Russia and China reacted angrily to the announcement.
Source: Stern
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