Russia: New missiles 'defensive'
Russia’s new nuclear missile system is purely defensive and part of the country’s programme to upgrade its military, deputy foreign minister Yuri Fedotov has said.
“It’s a military issue of course,” Fedotov told The Associated Press Friday when asked about the new missiles. ”Any armed forces needs a kind of upgrading, so it’s a natural process.”
The minister was asked why the country was trying to improve its nuclear capabilities at a time when the international community was working to get countries like North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear programmes. Fedotov said that “as everything we have, it’s totally defensive”.
