Russia threatens to deploy troops near the United States, in Cuba and Venezuela, as US troops rise in Russia's neighborhood

"Russia does not rule out the possibility of deploying its troops in Cuba and Venezuela if talks on the security guarantees required by Moscow fail.

 

"I would neither confirm nor reject anything," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said at the RTVi station in response to a question. "It all depends on the actions of our American counterparts," - he added. Russia says the US military presence in Europe is a threat to its security. Recently, President Vladimir Putin has raised the question of how Washington would react if Russian troops were deployed near the U.S. border."