WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Russia's chief of the general staff Tuesday said a U.S. missile defense system planned to be stationed in Eastern Europe is aimed against Russia.
Col. Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, the Russian chief of the general staff, told English-language Russia Today television that an interceptor-missile site in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic "will be clearly aimed at Russia," Polish Radio reported.
Baluyevsky said there was no need for the United States to install a missile shield against Iran's missile system that doesn't exist.
He said Russia has a missile system and it's obvious the U.S. missile system
will be positioned against Russia.
Baluyevsky is to travel Wednesday to Brussels to attend a Russia-NATO council's meeting at which the U.S. missile shield is to be discussed, the radio said.
U.S. officials have denied Moscow's claims the Eastern European anti-missile system would be aimed at Russia and have specified Iran and North Korea as rogue countries that might pose a threat to U.S. interests.
