U.S. turned down Putin’s offer to end the fighting in Ukraine.
On Thursday, the Kremlin said it would oppose the planned U.S. deployment of long-range missiles in Germany because NATO’s activities threatened Russia’s national security.
At a NATO summit in Washington on Wednesday, the US and Germany declared they will deploy long-range fire weapons in Germany in 2026 to show their commitment to NATO and European defense as Russia invades Ukraine.
They stated the “episodic deployments” were preparation for longer-term stationing of SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and hypersonic weapons with a greater range than Europe’s.
NATO also declared a new U.S. air defense installation in northern Poland mission-ready on Wednesday to detect and intercept ballistic missile threats as part of its missile shield.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Russian news agencies: “The North Atlantic alliance has again very clearly established its core. An alliance formed during conflict to sustain it.
As NATO’s military infrastructure grew, “tensions on the European continent were escalating,” and the Kremlin was watching.
“We see the decisions taken in NATO to create separate logistics hubs in Black Sea cities, the opening of additional facilities in Europe, and we see that in fact NATO’s military infrastructure is constantly and incrementally moving towards our borders,” he added.
This necessitates a thorough analysis of the discussion’s choices. This threatens our national security greatly. We must adopt smart, concerted, effective actions to prevent and counter NATO.”
Putin ordered tens of thousands of soldiers into Ukraine in February 2022, calling it a “special military operation” to protect Russia from the West and a pro-Western Ukrainian government.
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