Vladamir Putin has vowed to “target” European capitals in a furious tirade as the US seeks to deploy hypersonic missiles to Germany. The Cold War-style standoff could spark WW3 as Russia tries to bully the West into backing down.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov threatened the citizens of countries which could end up hosting the American missiles.
Peskov said: “We [Russia] have enough capacity to contain these missiles, but the potential victims are the capitals of these countries.”
Putin’s mouthpiece said the missiles created a “paradox” where “Europe is a target for our missiles, our country is a target for US missiles in Europe.”
The missiles, Tomahawk cruise and SM-6s, have significantly longer range than what the US currently has in Europe, the BBC reported.
They had been banned under a 1988 treaty between Russia and the US but Putin violated the agreement in 2014.
American missiles are only supposed to be deployed “episodically” and will arrive in Germany, the only country so far to host them, in 2026.
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said the deployment of long-range US missiles would give Europe the time to develop their own.
He said Europe had a “increasingly serious gap in capability” against what Russia and the US has.
Russia has been using its hypersonic missiles to hammer one European capital already, Kyiv.
Earlier this week when madman Putin bombed a children’s hospital in Kyiv in a shocking “genocidal” attack.
Poland is also considering blowing up Russian missiles that fly over Ukrainian airspace.
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said the eastern European country was on the “frontline” of the war and Russian bombs flew through its airspace.
Sikorski said: “At this stage, this is an idea.
“Our dilemma is the following. If we shoot them down only when they enter our airspace the debris is a threat to our citizens and to our property.
“And the Ukrainians are saying, ‘Please, we will not mind, do it over our airspace when they’re in imminent danger of crossing into Polish territory.
“To my mind, that’s self-defence but we are exploring the idea.”
Missiles have become an increasingly important part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the Kremlin targeting Ukrainian civilian infrastructure.
