Kremlin: NATO missile plans dangerous escalation – Europe

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Kremlin considers NATO's plans to deploy long-range missiles a “dangerous escalation.”

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Peskov said the missiles supplied by NATO were already being used to strike Russia, but plans to deploy longer-range missiles could exacerbate the situation. “The important thing is that these missiles are being used to launch attacks on our regions,” he told reporters, referring to Russia's four new regions. “As for longer-range missiles, this is a false flag act, a new and very dangerous escalation,” he stressed.

“The whole world sees Biden’s gaffes, but these problems are an internal American issue,” the Kremlin spokesman said at the US president’s press conference last night, but declined, as TASS reported, to “assess Biden’s chances in the presidential race.” “Biden’s disrespectful remarks about Putin are unacceptable and paint the US president in a bad light,” Peskov added. Putin “did not convey any message to Trump through Orban,” Peskov said.

The United States “provided Germany and Italy with additional air defense.”

“Deploying additional air defense, support, and other combat support to Germany and Italy”: This is one of the unspecified contributions the United States has made to NATO’s deterrence and defense, according to a White House fact sheet summarizing U.S. efforts to bolster the alliance after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, this is not the long-range U.S. missiles announced for Germany starting in 2026, which are mentioned in a separate chapter of the same paper.

NATO's failed Moscow summit only raised the stakes.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the NATO summit in Washington was in his opinion “catastrophic” and “did nothing but exacerbate tensions” and “increase the risks of further development of the situation.” “We have come to the conclusion that this is, of course, the height of shame,” Ryabkov said.

Kremlin rejects accusations in Rheinmetall case

The Kremlin is rejecting allegations of a Russian plot to assassinate the CEO of German arms company Rheinmetall, which supplies weapons to Ukraine. “This is all presented in the style of another fake story, so you can’t take such news seriously,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said when asked about CNN’s reports from anonymous Western sources that Russia planned to kill Armin Papberger, the head of Rheinmetall. The attack was thwarted by the United States, the broadcaster said.

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