Newsweek
Russia has formed an Iskander missile brigade in its region bordering new NATO member Finland, while another alliance member, Poland, warned of the nuclear-weapons risk that Moscow poses.
The Iskander-M ballistic missiles can fire conventional as well as nuclear warheads. Kremlin-friendly newspaper Izvestia reported that the system is key to the presence in Russia’s Karelia Republic of the Leningrad Military District (LMD), which was formed after Helsinki joined the alliance last April.
