The Russian leader said he would implement 'mirror measures' if the US goes ahead with plans to deploy long-range missiles in Germany
The Russian leader said he would implement 'mirror measures' if the US goes ahead with plans to deploy long-range missiles in Germanylaunched from Berlin could reach Moscow in 10 minutes, and it would take about the same amount of time forwarned that he would implement “mirror measures” if the US goes ahead with plans to deploy long-range missiles in Germany from 2026, suggesting he could place missiles within striking distance of the West.
In a speech to mark Russian navy day on Sunday, Mr Putin said the flight time of Germany-based US missiles, which he claimed could be equipped with nuclear warheads, would reach Russian territory in “about 10 minutes”.
Marion Messmer, senior research fellow in the international security programme at the Chatham House think tank, said deploying missiles from north-east of Siberia might be more realistic than Cuba, which might not allow Moscow to station missiles in the country again. The INF Treaty signed by the US and Soviet Union required both powers to eliminate their ground-launched nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles that could travel between 500 and 5,500 kilometres , thus ending the nuclear stand-off in the Cold War.
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