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Russia shelves Kaliningrad missile plan
Sep 19, 2009, 14:32 GMT
Moscow - Russia has decided not to station short-range rockets in its exclave of Kaliningrad near the Polish border, in reaction to US plans to shelve its missile defence shield plans, officials said Saturday.
Russian Deputy Defence Minister Vladimir Popovkin told Moscow radio that US President Barack Obama's 'reason had triumphed over ambition,' referring to Thursday's announcement that a plan to station defensive missiles in Poland and an accompanying radar system in the Czech Republic would not be carried out.
The Kremlin had originally threatened to station the missiles there in response to the US system, which it said threatened its security.
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