Russia Vows To Aim Missiles At U.S. Bases

Russia warned on July 5, that it would position its rockets close to the Polish border and point missiles at U.S. bases in Europe if Washington rebuffed its latest offer of cooperation on missile defence. Russia's hawkish first deputy prime minister, Sergei Ivanov, made it clear that Moscow would be forced "to respond" if the Bush administration snubbed Vladimir Putin's offer to work together on missile defence using a Soviet-era radar base.