Putin compares missile shield bid to Cuban crisis

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has compared the US proposal to build a missile defence shield in eastern Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s.

“Analogous actions by the Soviet Union, when it deployed missiles in Cuba, prompted the Caribbean crisis,” Mr Putin said at the end of a European Union-Russian summit in Portugal, using the Russian term for the Cuban missile crisis.

“Such a threat is being set up on our borders,” he said.