In an interview with RIA Novosti Dec. 15, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov pointed to the U.S. Army’s reactivation in early November of the 56th Artillery Command, which is based in the Mainz-Kastel district of Wiesbaden, Germany. This, he said, is among the “indirect indications” to Russia that NATO intends to redeploy such weapons in Europe to which Russia would have to react with measures of its own.
The reactivation involves the U.S. unit which, up until the late 1990s, was armed with Pershing missiles.
