Moscow expects clarification on US missiles in Poland - Lavrov

Moscow expects clarification from Washington and Warsaw in connection with the deployment of the battery of the US' Patriot missiles in Poland, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference Thursday. Lavrov said that though the Patriot missiles do not belong to the anti-missile defense program, Moscow does not understand why it was necessary to deploy the Patriot battery near the Russian border. When asked whether Russia will return to the issue of deployment of its Iskander missile systems in the Kaliningrad region, Lavrov stressed that Russia is not interested in launching another arms race in Europe.