Russian FM 'doesn't understand' Polish missiles

Morag, near the Baltic coast
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says he doesn't understand Poland's plans to station a battery of U.S. Patriot missiles near the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

Lavrov was reacting Friday to an announcement Wednesday by the Polish Defense Ministry saying a base with up to eight launch pads and manned by some 100 U.S. troops will be installed in the town 37 miles (60 kilometers) from the Poland-Kaliningrad border.

Poland says the missiles, to be installed in April, will be used to train the military.

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