Moscow does not rule out preventive strike against missile shield in Europe

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International Conference in Moscow missile shield

Iskander missiles

11:55 03/05/2012

MOSCOW, 03 May (RIA Novosti).

Russia's General Staff includes the case of an aggravation of the situation, a preventive strike against the missile defense system in Europe is not considered this but extreme than the action.

"The deployment of new weapons of attack in the south and the north-west Russia for control of parts of the missile defense system, including the stationing of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea, represents one of the possible variants of the destruction of the missile defense infrastructure in Europe, "said Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov on Thursday at the international missile defense conference in Moscow. "Given the destabilizing character of missile defense system, the concrete in the creation of the illusion, there is a disarming strike is possible unpunished, the decision is taken to an application of the existing weapons in the period of a deterioration of the situation, "added Army General Makarov. Source: http://de.rian.ru/security_and_military/20120503/263487437.html