Russia is not going to inform the NATO command about where to deploy its missile systems. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Defense Committee Vladimir Shamanov on Thursday, February 15. On the eve of Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg at a meeting of defense ministers of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels said that Moscow should be more open in the issue of placing Iskander in the Kaliningrad region.

"With what a fright?" Shamanov protested.. - This is our legitimate territory, what we want, then we do. In contrast, they call the Americans and other people who are unfriendly towards us, "RIA Novosti quotes the words of the deputy. A similar comment was given by Andrei Klimov, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. "Iskander" appeared there (in the Kaliningrad region) due to the fact that NATO is expanding its military activity near our borders. Therefore, if military activity decreases and they remove this component, we will have less cause for concern. We - and most importantly - do it on our sovereign land. While US missile defense systems are located far from their borders, and the military contingent is located around the entire perimeter of Russia, "RT Senator. Earlier it was reported that an entire American division was deployed near the Russian borders in the western direction. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the 2nd Armored Brigade of the United States arrived in Poland, and the technique of the 3rd American Brigade was posted in the Baltic States. Moscow warned that such actions of the West could entail the necessary efforts of the Russian Federation to ensure its security, in particular, the deployment of Iskander in Kaliningrad. Thus, Russia is very open and transparent, the chief editor of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine Colonel Viktor Murakhovsky. "We are under the international treaties are not obliged to tell anyone anything.

And actually "Iskander" entered the missile brigade in the Kaliningrad region in the last place. We until the last hoped that at least some dialogue with NATO about the deployment of their essential forces in the Baltic states and Poland could be adjusted. They did not heed it. Now we have an iron argument, "- lead" Vesti "opinion of a military expert. From Kaliningrad, the Iskander-M complex covers the territory of Poland, part of Germany, almost the entire territory of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia with rockets, the expert explained..