RUSSIA could point missiles at strategic US targets in central Europe, including planned American missile shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, a senior Russian general said yesterday.

Russian ballistic rockets could be aimed at US missile defences in Europe if the system is ever built, the commander of Russia’s strategic missile forces said today

SECRETARY of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday called a Russian general’s warning that Poland and the Czech Republic risk being targeted if they host US missile defence bases ‘‘extremely unfortunate’’.