Moscow does not pay much attention to the statements of various foreign permanent representatives. So the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, commented on the words of the US Permanent Representative to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison that Washington is considering the possibility of destroying Russian missiles at the development stage. "We have quite a lot of uncertainty with messages at a higher level," Dmitry Peskov dismissed threats from the US permanent representative.. On the eve, Hutchinson accused Russia of violating the terms of the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF) and warned that the US intends to eliminate land-based missiles created in Russia. The US is trying to “cover up its own violations” with such statements, military expert Viktor Litovkin is convinced. "The thief and the cap are on fire," he said in an interview with RT, indicating that in the Pentagon’s budget for 2019. funds are provided for the creation of a cruise missile with a range from 500 to 5,500 km.

At the same time, according to the expert, only inadequate people could threaten Russia with "the destruction of missiles". “Such people should be removed from office,” Litovkin recommended.. However, he believes that such statements from Washington should not be given meaning.

“You shouldn’t react to every puppy wolf,” he stressed.. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, called the statement of the permanent representative of Washington "aggressive rhetoric".