Response to global missile defense - Putin

Russia’s Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin warns the U.S. of an effective and asymmetric response to deployment of a global missile defense system. "Russia’s military-technical response to the U.S. global missile defense system and its segment in Europe will be effective and asymmetric. And it will fully correspond to the U.S. steps in the field of missile defense," said the head of government in an article published in" Rossiyskaya Gazeta."

"We are prompted towards such actions by the U.S. and NATO policy on missile defense," he explained. According to the prime minister, "a safeguard against upsetting the global balance of power may be either creation of one’s own very costly and as yet ineffective missile defense system, or, more productively, the ability to breach any missile defense system and protect Russia's retaliatory potential.”

"Our strategic nuclear forces and aerospace defense will be serving precisely this purpose. In this matter there cannot be "too much patriotism," stressed Putin.

(TASS)