Kubinka, Russia. President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal this year, prompting NATO’s chief to accuse Moscow of dangerous “saber-rattling.”
Putin made his announcement a day after Russian officials denounced a US plan to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO member states on Russia’s border as the most aggressive act by Washington since the Cold War a generation ago.
Tension has flared anew between Russia and Western powers over Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, in which pro-Russian separatist forces have seized a large part of the …read more
Source: The Jakarta Globe
