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US antimissile system exists on paper only, says Russian general
Russian AVN Military News Agency web site

Moscow, 27 December: The Russian Defence Ministry's leadership fully shares President Vladimir Putin's assessment of the consequences of the US withdrawal from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty and believes that it poses no direct threat to Russia's security.

"The president of the Russian Federation and the Russian minister of defence have said many times that the US decision to pull out of the ABM Treaty was no surprise for us and does not pose a serious threat to Russia's security," Lt-Gen Anatoliy Mazurkevich, head of the Defence Ministry's main directorate for international military cooperation, told reporters on Thursday [27 December]. Taking a question from Interfax-Military News Agency, Mazurkevich said there was no chance of creating real and efficient antimissile defence systems in the near future, because such technologies exist only on paper.

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