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Russia will deal with the "strengthening of the potential of strategic nuclear forces" in response to the deployment of the United States of the Pro in Europe, and at the first stage of this work, shock systems will be created that can break through the American pro. According to Interfax, Vladimir Putin stated this.

According to the head of state, over the past three years, Russian defense enterprises have created and successfully tested a number of similar systems and this year these weapons have already begun to enter the troops.

Putin also accused the United States of hypocrisy again, saying that after resolving the Iranian nuclear problem there is no reason for the further deployment of the American Pro in Europe. “Thus,” the head of state concluded, “references to Iranian, and to the North Korean missile -nuclear threats only cover true plans, and their true goal in neutralizing the strategic nuclear potential of other nuclear states, except the United States and their allies. First of all, our country - Russia.”

For the first time, Putin made such accusations at the end of October at a meeting of the Valdai discussion club . “We, and the whole world, tried once again to be misleading, if it is quite simpler, then they deceived,” he said.

Putin also recalled that the United States unilaterally withdrew from an agreement on limiting missile defense systems. Thus, he concluded, the actual task of the United States was to "destroy the strategic balance, change the balance of power in its favor in such a way as to not only dominate, but to be able to dictate his will to everyone: both his geopolitical competitors and his allies."

These statements were made against the backdrop of a few days earlier than the first tests of the American Pro in Europe. During the teachings of Maritime Theater Missile Defense (MTMD), which the United States held together with NATO allies, the American destroyer Ross in the North Atlantic successfully intercepted a ballistic missile launched from the Hebris Islands off the coast of Scotland.

The development of the United States system in Europe, which has been conducting for 10 years, causes a sharply negative reaction of Russia. On March 26, Putin said thatNATO was trying to break military parity with Russia . The North Atlantic Alliance, Putin noted, “develops rapid response forces and increases its infrastructure near our borders, there are attempts to violate nuclear parity, the creation of European and Asia-Pacific segments about” is forced. He called the development of the missile defense system the most dangerous challenge.

In June, the deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, Yevgeny Lukyanov, said that the deployment of system elements in Poland and Romania about automatically makes these countries potential goals for Russia . “If they like to be goals because of American weapons systems, this is their choice,” the official noted.