NATO urges Russia to destroy new missiles, threatens with harsh response

NATO has urged Russia to destroy the new missiles before the deadline ending in August and to save the treaty that keeps nuclear warheads based on land outside Europe or face a determined response to this alliance in the region.

The defence ministers of NATO member states will discuss tomorrow the next steps if Moscow maintains the missile system that the United States says would allow it to launch nuclear attacks in Europe and destroy the 1987 Intermedian Forces Trajat.

We'll call on Russia to take the responsible path, but we haven't seen any indication that this will happen,” Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a media conference.

“We will need to answer,” he added further.

He refused to give more detailed comments. But diplomats said defence ministers would consider more flights to Europe by American warplanes carrying nuclear warheads, more military training and reposition of US missiles.

The United States and its NATO allies want Russia to destroy its 9M729/ SSC-8 nuclear, which Moscow has so far refused to do. /Periscope