Putin warns to point his missiles at Washin …

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Russia would deploy missiles capable of reaching the "territories where the decision centers" that threaten them, in response to the installation of American systems in Europe.

"Russia will be obliged to deploy weapons that can be used not only against the territories from which the direct threat originates, but also against the territories where the decision centers for the use of missiles threaten us", said the president in his speech. annual report on the state of the nation. "We know how to proceed and we will implement these plans as soon as this threat becomes real," he said.

The Russian leader stressed that the measures would be "both symmetrical and asymmetrical" because "some of the missiles" that Washington could deploy on the European continent "have a flight time of 10-12 minutes to Moscow". "This is a very big threat for us, which would greatly aggravate the situation in the field of international security," he said.

Putin also spoke of the withdrawal of the United States from a major arms control treaty between Moscow and Washington. The Russian president accused Washington of using "imaginary accusations" to defend his departure from the INF nuclear treaty.

"Our American partners should have said things honestly instead of using imaginary accusations against Russia to motivate their unilateral withdrawal from the agreement." Earlier this month, Russia and the United States suspended their participation in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, accusing each other of violating it.