Wars and Rumors of War

Putin threatens to aim rockets at U.S. bases

 Russian premier again reacts to plan for U.S. installations in Eastern Europe

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday repeated his threat to aim Russian rockets at former Soviet satellite states if U.S. missile defense facilities are deployed there.

Speaking about U.S. plans for interceptors in Poland and a radar system in the Czech Republic, Putin said that "our experts consider that this system threatens our national security and if it appears, we will be obligated to adequately react to this."

He said Russia's action would be to "retarget our missiles toward a system that we aren't creating."