Russia confirmed Monday that it has deployed its tactical Iskander-M missiles along the borders with NATO countries, insisting the deployment did not violate international treaties.
"The deployment of Iskander missile battalions on the territory of the Western Military District does not violate any respective international agreements," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the defense ministry's spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying.
Some Western media has reported earlier that Russia deployed these systems in its westernmost isolated Kaliningrad region and along its border with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The missiles deployed are said to have a range of 400 kilometers, which thus do not fall under a category of the middle- range missiles banned by the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between Moscow and Washington.
In 2011, the then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia would station Iskander tactic missiles in Kaliningrad and southern Krasnodar region, should the United States implement its phased approach to the anti-missile defense program, which Moscow has repeatedly warned may cause "ice-age" in relations with the United States.
簡明繙譯：俄羅斯周一証實，軍方已經在俄羅斯接壤北約國傢的邊境部署了戰朮伊斯坎德尒-M導彈，並且堅稱該行動沒有違反國際條約。早在2011年，噹時的俄羅斯總統梅德韋傑伕就警告說，俄羅斯將在加裏寧格勒和克拉斯諾達尒江南區站伊斯坎德尒戰朮導彈。
