Russia has added the recently opened US missile defense base in Poland to its list of possible priority strike targets due to its “obvious potential” to weaken Moscow’s deterrent forces, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

During a weekly briefing on Thursday, Zakharova was asked to comment on the official opening of the US-NATO anti-missile base in the Polish village of Redzikowo last week and the statements by Warsaw that this facility is directly aimed against Russia.

The spokeswoman replied that the opening of the base is “yet another provocative step in a series of deeply destabilizing actions by the Americans and their allies in NATO in the strategic sphere.”

Zakharova stated that the move is part of the “decades-long destructive policy of bringing NATO military infrastructure closer to Russia’s borders” and leads to the “undermining of strategic stability” and an increase in strategic risks and “the overall level of nuclear danger.”

She noted that the facility in Redzikowo has an “obvious potential” to weaken Russia’s deterrent forces and that given “the nature and level of threats arising from this type of Western military facilities,” the base has been added to the list of “priority targets for potential destruction.”

The spokeswoman added that such facilities could be destroyed by Russia using “a wide range of the latest weapons.”

RT