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relations would automatically remove any questions, most importantly whom they would target."We understand that these missiles are defensive," he said. "But it is clear that their performance characteristics are designed to be dropped from Poland"s nearby district."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said on Thursday that Moscow was deeply concerned with the plans of the United States to deploy Patriot missiles in Poland near the Russian border.
Kosachyov said that the tragedy near the Russian western city of Smolensk where Kaczynski, his wife and 94 other Polish officials were killed on April 10 in an air crash might help to bring both countries together.
"The recent tragic events provide a unique chance to bring changes in the diplomatic relations between our two countries, but it is just a chance and I am far from saying that attitudes have changed for the better," Kosachyov said.