{"id":31562,"date":"2024-07-13T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=31562"},"modified":"2024-07-13T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:25:21","slug":"moscow-warns-us-missile-deployment-could-make-european-capitals-russian-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2024\/07\/13\/moscow-warns-us-missile-deployment-could-make-european-capitals-russian-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow warns US missile deployment could make European capitals Russian targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Desk report:\u00a0 <\/strong>The Kremlin on Saturday warned the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles in a repeat of Cold War-style confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke of a &#8220;paradox&#8221; in which &#8220;Europe is a target for our missiles, our country is a target for US missiles in Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<article>&#8220;We have enough capacity to contain these missiles but the potential victims are the capitals of these countries,&#8221; he said, speaking to Russian state television channel Russia 1. Peskov also hinted that such a confrontation could undermine Europe as a whole. &#8220;Europe is not living its best moment. In a different configuration, a repeat of history is inevitable,&#8221; he said when the channel&#8217;s anchor Pavel Zarubin pointed out that the Cold War had ended with the Soviet Union&#8217;s collapse. The White House announced on Wednesday during a NATO summit that it would periodically station long-range weapons including Tomahawk cruise missiles in Germany from 2026 as a deterrent. &#8220;Exercising these advanced capabilities will demonstrate the United States&#8217; commitment to NATO and its contributions to European integrated deterrence,&#8221; the White House said. The Kremlin criticised the move, accusing Washington of taking a step towards a new Cold War and of directly participating in the conflict in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article>Russia&#8217;s defence ministry said on Friday that Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov held a telephone call with his US counterpart Lloyd Austin where they discussed lowering the risk of &#8220;possible escalation&#8221;. NATO countries \u2013 spearheaded by the United States \u2013 have bolstered their defences in Europe following the start of Russia&#8217;s military campaign in Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p>Source: UNB News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desk report:&nbsp; The Kremlin on Saturday warned the deployment of US missiles in Germany could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles in a repeat of Cold War-style confrontation. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov spoke of a &ldquo;paradox&rdquo; in which &ldquo;Europe is a target for our missiles, our country is a target for US missiles in Europe.&rdquo; &ldquo;We have enough capacity to contain these missiles but the potential victims are the capitals of these countries,&rdquo; he said, speaking to Russian state television channel Russia 1. Peskov also hinted that such a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31564,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31562\/revisions\/31564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}