"Ukraine has turned to the United States with a request to deploy several battalions of THAAD mobile anti-ballistic missile defense launchers with radars near Kharkov on Ukrainian territory. An AN/TPY-2 radar that makes part of the THAAD system is capable of tracking the aerospace situation over a substantial part of Russian territory and will enable Kiev and its NATO allies to ‘look deep" into the territory of Russia to a distance of up to 1,000 km," the source specified.
The West and Kiev have recently been spreading allegations about Russia’s potential ‘invasion’ of Ukraine. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov castigated these claims as "empty and unfounded," serving as a ploy to escalate tensions, pointing out that Russia did not pose any threat whatsoever to anyone. However, Peskov did not rule out the possibility of provocations aimed at justifying such allegations and warned that attempts to use military force to resolve the crisis in southeastern Ukraine would have very serious consequences.
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Hypothetical deployment of US antimissile systems THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) near Kharkov would be another step towards destabilization of the situation, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS.
ReplyDeleteOn Monday, a diplomatic source said that Kiev had asked the United States to deploy several THAAD battalions near Kharkov.
"This would be another step towards destabilization," Peskov said.
THAAD is a ground-based mobile missile defense system for high altitude interception intermediate and shorter-range ballistic missiles in the terminal phase (descent or reentry).