Russia Missile Test Heightens Standoff With West
Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 6:39 pm Under World News 5 views
MOSCOW:Russia on Thursday tested an inter-continental missile, reports said, heightening tensions with the West as France said the European Union could slap sanctions on Moscow over the Georgia conflict.
Russia also sought international support for its stance at a summit with China and Central Asian nations.
The missile test in northern Russia came barely a week after the United States completed an accord with Poland on basing an anti-missile shield in central Europe and as Russia accuses Nato of building up its navy vessels in the Black Sea.
A spokesman for Russia’s strategic nuclear forces said the test was successful, Russian news agencies reported. The announcement came as Russia complained about the number of Nato ships in the Black Sea and said it was taking “measures of precaution”.
Nato said there were five warships taking part in exercises in the Black Sea that were organised before Russia’s military offensive in Georgia on August 8 to rebuff a Georgian attempt to retake breakaway South Ossetia.
The standoff with the West deepened with President Dmitry Medvedev’s announcement that Russia recognised South Ossetia and another rebel region, Abkhazia, as independent states.
“There is no Nato naval build up in the Black Sea as Russian authorities are claiming in the media,” alliance spokeswoman Carmen Romero said.
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