Radio Free Europe:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe a “great danger” and vowed that Moscow will respond by enhancing its own missile strike capability.
While NATO insists the shield is a defensive system aimed in part at thwarting possible Iranian missile strikes, Putin said it can be easily turned into an offensive system that could be used against Russia.
“Those tubes, those silos where missiles are put are used for Tomahawks. These Tomahawks can be put there in just a few hours, and then these will be not missile interceptors,” Putin told international news leaders in St. Petersburg on June 17.
“You have only to change the software, and that’s it. This work is absolutely invisible. The Romanians won’t know what’s happening there,” he said. “Nobody will know, either Romanians or Poles. I know how it’s done.
