NATO Catches on to Putin's Game in Europe

Edit Newsweek 15 Jul 2016
NATO inflicted a major setback on Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Warsaw Summit on July 8 and 9. The Alliance agreed to deploy a total of eight battalions to Eastern Europe. Yet Moscow had been anticipating the pushback and was already working on countermeasures to diminish and offset it ... Try Newsweek ... Moscow has threatened to permanently deploy the nuclear-capable 9K720 Iskander-M ballistic missiles in Kaliningrad ... ....

Russian Army to Equip Ground Forces With ‘Iskander’ Missiles by 2018

Edit Novosti 05 Aug 2014
MOSCOW, August, 5 (RIA Novosti) - The missile brigades of Russia’s Ground Forces will be equipped with advanced weaponry and hardware, including the 9K720 Iskander (SS-26 Stone) theater ballistic missile systems, as part of the 2020 state rearmament program, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during a teleconference ...The government has appropriated immense funds for army re-equipment ... ....
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