Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting with Cold War reflexes, Germany’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, after Moscow decided to add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal.
“President Putin’s announcement to stock up Russia’s strategic missile arsenal is unnecessary and certainly doesn’t contribute to stability and an easing of tension in Europe,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier told German news portal Spiegel Online.
Russian officials have denounced a plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states in Eastern Europe, on or near Russia’s borders, as the most aggressive act by Washington since the Cold War.
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Source: Daily News & Analysis
