Russia critical of UK's Flyingdales move

Russia’s foreign ministry today criticised Britain’s decision to allow the United States to use the RAF Fylingdales radar facility as part of its planned missile defence system.

“This step taken by the British military will hardly strengthen international security and will definitely impede the multilateral process of restriction and reduction of nuclear and other arms,” the ministry said in a statement.

“The creation of strategic missile defence is fraught with weaker global stability, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and means of their delivery, and the diversion of resources from counteracting the true threats of the present day, first and foremost international terrorism,” the statement said.