Medvedev: Russia has dropped plans for missiles on Polish border
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Moscow - President Dmitry Medvedev has confirmed that Russia will not place short-range missiles near its border with Poland, the Interfax news agency reported Saturday. The Kremlin chief was speaking after the Group of 20 summit in the US city of Pittsburgh. He said there was no longer a need for Russia to deploy Iskander missiles in the Baltic Sea enclave of Kaliningrad since Washington's decision to drop plans for a missile defence system in Central Europe. Russia had threatened to station its own missiles if US President Barack Obama failed to abandon the proposed missile shield system of his predecessor George W Bush.
Copyright DPA
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