Putin Pledges Russian Response to U.S. Cruise Missile Test

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017. Kremlin Photo

Russia pledged a response to a Sunday test of a U.S. ground-based cruise missile the Pentagon conducted two weeks after the expiration of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty in early August.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said, following a Helsinki meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö, the speed of which the U.S. tested a modified Tomahawk Land Attack Missile indicated the Defense Department had been working on the system...

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