Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes that the first deputy chief of the Main Operations Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Viktor Poznikhir, expressed the opinion that the US missile defense in Europe creates the possibility for a secret nuclear missile strike in Russia. The main message of today's statement by Poznikhir: "Let them know that we know". This opinion was expressed today, April 27 by the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Franz Klintsevich.

At a briefing earlier, Poznikhir stated that "the presence of US missile defense bases in Europe, missile defense ships in the seas and oceans adjacent to the Russian territory, creates a powerful hidden shock component for the possible application of a sudden nuclear missile strike on the Russian Federation".

According to Klintsevich, such a statement has several addressees. In particular, "a clear signal has been sent to the US leadership that any development of events will not become a surprise for us".

The senator said: "I think that this reminder will not be superfluous.

Let them, as they say, they know that we know ".

Klintsevich believes that at the moment the most reliable guarantee of peace is Russia's ability to "most severely respond to a possible aggression". The first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security expressed the opinion that the addressees of Poznikhir's statement are not least the Russian citizens. "They have nothing to fear: the situation is under control," the senator concluded..