General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

In many sources, besides the phrase: “Chief of the Main Staff of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Colonel General,” there are no other facts from the biography of Sergei Rudsky. Yes, and some on the Internet Interesting Facts from the life of a military leader are missing. Therefore, we will try to piece together the mosaic of the biography of General Rudsky. And let's start, of course, with his name.

Hero name

Many sources call General Sergei Rudsky somewhat differently. Referring to those close to the Ministry of Defense and announcing the elevation of a new candidate to the post of Chief of the Main Staff of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, they do not even bother to clarify the correct spelling of his last name.

Perhaps this confusion is connected with the name of another military leader - the hero of the USSR, retired aviation major general, and the latter), former Kursk governor Alexander Rutsky.

These individuals - Rudsky and Rutsky - are not connected by kinship and a common surname, as someone thought. There is nothing in common between them except love for the homeland and duty to the country. And Sergei Fedorovich, unlike Alexander Vladimirovich, has not yet risen to the rank of general. Rudskoy’s father is an outstanding military leader, like Rutskoy, a hero of the USSR, but not Yeltsin’s first close general.

Parents

Literally everyone predicted the future general, Sergei Fedorovich Rudsky, a brilliant military career. After all, Sergei’s father, Fyodor Andreevich, is an important figure in military history Russia, he has many orders and medals, including: Lenin, Nevsky, Patriotic War I degree, Red Star. Fedor Rudsky also has many medals, including the Golden Star.

Sergei Fedorovich’s father was born in the Ukrainian village of Avdeevka in the 20s of the last century. At the age of 18, in 1939, he decided to enlist in the Red Army. General Rudsky's father was a simple peasant. Before him, the men in the family had not even thought about a military career.

Inspired by his service in the Red Army, Fyodor Rudskoy decides to continue it and in 1941 he graduates from Saratov Tank Military School No. 3.

There is no information about the mother in the biography of Lieutenant General Sergei Rudsky.

Father's career

The pages of history carefully preserve the memory of Kursk Bulge- one of the most powerful battles in the history of the Great Patriotic War. It was thanks to the events that unfolded in the summer of 1943 that the initiative passed into the hands of the Red Army. It was one of the largest tank battles- about 6 thousand cars defended the independence of the country, and with them two million people and 4 thousand aircraft. General Rudsky's father took part in the Battle of Kursk.

Fyodor Andreevich’s company held back the onslaught of the Nazi invaders for an hour. The soldiers selflessly waited for the arrival of the main opposing forces. In this battle, Fedor Rudskoy personally destroyed three indestructible Royal Tiger tanks.

The heroic pages in the biography of Fyodor Rudsky do not end there.

Another source states that Fyodor Andreevich destroyed an entire company of Wehrmacht soldiers, or rather, all that was left of it after the battles in what is now Kaliningrad. Fedor Rudskoy blocked the retreat route. On both sides he cut off the path of the Fritz retreating from Koenigsberg. The fate of the hostages was this: Rudsky’s platoon drove through them with tanks. About one and a half kilometers... This feat turned out to be a “Hero of the USSR” for Fedor Andreevich.

Post-war years

The family of General Rudsky was lucky - his father returned home safe and sound. Except for the wounds left by the war.

Upon his return, Fyodor Andreevich decides to continue his military career. His regalia is complemented by 2 diplomas - the Military Academy of Armored Forces and the Military Academy of the General Staff. A few years later, Fyodor Rudskoy himself took the helm of military education in the USSR - he headed one of the military educational institutions of Belarus.

In 1969, Fyodor Andreevich was invited to become the head of the Minsk Suvorov Military School. The same one where your first steps in military life his son, the future General Rudskoy, will do it.

Until his death, which befell the brave military man in 1982, he devoted himself to serving his Motherland. Graduated 13 courses, raising excellent military men. Many of them, thanks to their amazing education, received the rank of generals, and the courage and courage instilled in them from childhood allowed many of them to become heroes.

In honor of Fyodor Rudsky, a memorial sign and a memorial plaque.

His son, Sergei Rudskoy, Colonel General and future chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, will not betray military affairs - the life’s work of his father. However, he will still choose a different field.

Education

The military career of the future General Sergei Fedorovich Rudsky began at the Minsk Suvorov Military School. According to sources, in particular, the book by Nikolai Zygmuntovich Kunz “The Pride of the Cadet Brotherhood”, the future Colonel General took his first step into the military field in 1977. It was this year that he became a graduate of the educational institution.

It is known that the next stage of training for Sergei Fedorovich was the Moscow Higher Combined Arms Command School.

However, information about the time he spent at the educational institution is not publicly available. It is only known that he was one of his students. In addition to Sergei Fedorovich, the highest military positions in the Russian Federation are occupied by at least 3 MVOKU graduates with the rank of colonel general: First Deputy of the General Staff Bogdanovsky, Chief of Staff of the CSTO Sidorov, Commander of the Western Military District Kartapolov.

Military career

The first mention of him as a military leader dates back to 1995. As a lieutenant colonel, Sergei Rudskoy was the commander of the 255th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, which took part in the first and second Chechen campaigns. The regiment itself has a rich past; it became the successor to the 7th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Stalingrad-Korsun Red Banner Brigade. During World War II, Field Marshal Paulus himself surrendered to its soldiers. The regiment itself is referred to as the “255th Guards Motorized Rifle Volgograd-Korsun Red Banner.” He has many successful operations carried out during the Russian-Chechen wars. And in some of them the regiment was commanded by Rudskoy himself.

First award

For his valor in Grozny, Sergei Rudskoy was awarded the gold star “Hero of Russia”.

First of all, Sergei Fedorovich had to say “thank you” for the award to the commander of the North group of forces, Lev Rokhlin. It was he who nominated Rudsky for the award. According to sources, the main feat of then-Lieutenant Colonel Sergei Rudsky was a reverent attitude towards soldiers’ lives. Despite the harsh military situation (however, war is never easy or calm), the regiment emerged from the battles with minimal losses.

Starfall

The next important date in the biography of Sergei Fedorovich is December 2012. Based on the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, his title began to sound: Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy.

According to sources, the award might not have found its hero. The fact is that by decree more than 50 officers were awarded titles. Anatoly Serdyukov, who previously headed the Ministry, was against such generosity, so within a year the documents were subject to thorough check. However, Sergei Shoigu, who came to power, started the meteor shower.

Many believe that the delay was justified. In order to receive a new rank, a serviceman must hold the position for at least a year and have no comments. And when former minister they were everywhere. However, the global network does not have information about further advancement up the career ladder, for what merits the colonel general’s stars fell on his shoulder straps, or is diligently hidden.

In the biography of Lieutenant General Sergei Rudsky, his contribution to the fight against Serdyukov’s legacy is especially noted. Sergei Fedorovich devoted more than one year to solving these issues.

The fight against “Serdyukovism”

As the first deputy chief of the Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Sergei Fedorovich stood at the origins of the fight against “Serdyukovism.” For people who associate the military garrison only with the filming location of the TV series “Mines in the Fairway” and “Goryunov,” it is worth explaining that “Serdyukovism” refers to the time of the rule of the armed forces by the minister of the same name. After his loud and dizzying “fall” from the government chair, his surname became a household name. And symbolizes the stage of the fall and plunder of the Ministry of the Armed Forces.

In 2013, at a round table with the loud title “The year after the change of leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - results and prospects,” Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoy made a report in which he reported on the work over the past year and spoke about promising areas. These include: increasing the number of military personnel, restoring institutions and places of cultural recreation in garrisons, as well as developing measures to increase the prestige of the service. Within round table one of the participants inquired about the fate of the houses of naval officers, which Serdyukov planned to ruthlessly demolish. Lieutenant General Rudskoy assured those present that nothing like this would happen. And it’s worth noting that he kept his word.

Present tense

So far, the final page in the biography of General Sergei Rudsky has been his patronage at the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. This happened on November 10, 2015. However, in some sources the date is defined as the 24th. But everyone agrees on one thing - it was in November.

Throughout the history of its existence, the structure of the State Administration has experienced several reorganizations. According to available open sources According to the data, the structure of the Main Directorate consisted of 13 main directorates and 8 auxiliary departments and directorates.

Basic controls:

· First Directorate - countries of the European Commonwealth (except Great Britain);
· Second Directorate - countries of Northern and South America, UK, Australia, New Zealand;
· Third Directorate - Asian countries;
· Fourth Directorate - African countries;
· Fifth Directorate - Operational Intelligence Directorate;
· Sixth Directorate - radio-technical intelligence directorate;
· Seventh Directorate - NATO;
· Eighth Directorate - sabotage (SpN);
· Ninth Directorate - Directorate of Military Technologies;
· Tenth Directorate - Directorate of War Economy;
· Eleventh Directorate - Directorate of Strategic Doctrines and Weapons;
· Management Twelve Encore - information war;

Auxiliary departments and departments:

· Office of Space Intelligence
· Human Resources Department
· Operational and technical management
· Administrative and technical management
· External Relations Department
· Archive department
Information service

General military training of officers of the Main Directorate is carried out at the Novosibirsk Higher Military Command School, in the following specialties:

1. use of military reconnaissance units
2. use of special reconnaissance units

Special training for officers of the Main Directorate is carried out at the Military-Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Training is carried out at three main faculties:

1. Faculty of Strategic Human Intelligence
2. Faculty of Agent-Operational Intelligence
3. Faculty of Operational-Tactical Intelligence

The structure of the Main Directorate also includes two research institutes located in Moscow, known as the 6th and 18th Central Research Institutes.

The current deputy chiefs are:

1. Kondrashov, Vyacheslav Viktorovich (2011 - present)
2. Gizunov Sergey Alexandrovich (2015 - present)
3. Lelin Igor Viktorovich (2014 - present)

The head of the Military Academy of the Russian Ministry of Defense has the rank of deputy head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff Armed Forces Russian Federation.

4. Objectives of the intelligence activities of the Main Directorate
1. Support for the President of the Russian Federation, Federal Assembly, Government of the Russian Federation, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Chief General Staff the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation with intelligence information they need to make decisions in the political, economic, defense, scientific, technical and environmental fields;
2. Providing conditions conducive to the successful implementation of the policy of the Russian Federation in the field of defense and security;
3. Assistance economic development, scientific and technological progress of the country and military-technical security of the Russian Federation.

The General Staff (General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces) is the unit commanding the troops of the Russian Federation. He also plans actions to protect the country from external invasion, establishes a hierarchy military units and performs other duties that are prescribed for this body by the Council of the Ministry of Defense.

The General Staff of the RF Armed Forces is a federal body and reports directly to the Ministry of Defense. The main task of the unit is considered to be the protection of state borders and intelligence activities.

History of the creation and reforms of the headquarters

The Ministry of Defense arose a year after the collapse of the USSR. It used the standards and part of the resources of the USSR Ministry of Defense. By decree of the Ministry, the General Staff was formed. However, the day of the formation of the modern General Staff is not celebrated as a holiday.

The official holiday of the General Staff employees is associated with an event from ancient history, when Catherine II founded the first General Staff in Russia on January 14 (old style), 1763. By order of the Minister of Defense dated January 30, 2002, this day is celebrated on January 25 annually.

In 2004, a reform was carried out within the ministry, as a result of which functions (administrative, economic) that did not correspond to its tasks were removed from the General Staff.

The military conflict with Georgia in 2008 accelerated the reform of the Russian Armed Forces, its goal was to optimize management. As part of the reform, two basic sets of tasks within the ministry were identified:

Planning for the use and construction of aircraft.
Economic and strategic calculations for providing military units.

A clear distinction was made between the administrative responsibilities of the General Staff units:

Training activities and training of fighters are the responsibility of the main command of the troops.
Operational work is the prerogative of the General Staff and the joint strategic commands.

The reform made it possible to rid the General Staff of secondary functions that were performed by other bodies. The General Staff became an exclusively strategic body aimed at solving military problems. A striking example of such a task is.

The Chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces acts as Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Defense. Since 2012, the position of Chief Staff of the RF Armed Forces has been occupied by V.V. Gerasimov. This is the eighth chief since the formation of the modern General Staff. The NGSH has a deputy appointed in 2014 - N.V. Bogdanovsky.

Structure and tasks

After the reform, the headquarters was left with 12 tasks. The range of functions clarified as a result of the reforms can be briefly formulated as follows:

aircraft use planning;
organization of training of military forces;
management of the creation of divisions;
ensuring regular inspection and training campaigns;
mobilization of troops;
analysis of the situation in conscript army units, ensuring security in these units;
intelligence activities;
ensuring communications between different branches of the military;
coordination of the use of radio communications;
creation of radio and electronic obstacles in a situation of active hostilities;
training of personnel with the function of protecting state secrets;
carrying out scientific research with a military focus (creation of research institutes and financing of military scientific projects).

All functions lie in 14 departments, which include centers, departments and services. There are four main departments:

The main thing is operational;
2 Main;
The main thing about mobilization;
The main thing is communication.

There are also lower-level departments with practical tasks:

counter-electronic communications department;
military topography;
eighth division;
operational and preparatory;
construction and development of UAVs.

The Eighth Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces is a unit for collecting information for the Ministry of Defense necessary to solve current problems of managing the country's Armed Forces.

It is interesting that the 8th Directorate of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces has its own insignia “For Merit”, which is awarded to the personnel of this unit for reasonable initiative, diligence and excellent service. Persons involved who assisted the work of the department are also awarded; these can be military figures from other structures or civilians.

The headquarters system includes a research center, the National Defense Center, an operational (special) unit, a personal archive, and an automobile and motorcycle base.

GOU, tasks and command

The Main Operations Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces plans operations different levels. In 2013 V.V. Putin approved a system for the defense of our state, including a complete set of documents on the defense of the Russian Federation. The GOU was given the task of developing documentation support for the defense program, ensuring the organization of units and mobilizing troops in the event of a military threat.

Other tasks of the State Educational Institution:

search for military risk factors for the state (including collection and analysis of intelligence information);
military construction planning;
development of strategic and operational plans for the use of armed forces;
management of operational departments at any time (military and peaceful);
ensuring communications for the army and federal agencies;
anti-terrorism activities, including monitoring their implementation and providing support;
verification of the preparatory activities of the Russian Federation;
ensuring international military cooperation
initiatives under the State Armament program (military development of weapons and equipment).

After the collapse of the USSR, nine department heads were replaced. The current head of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces is S.F. Rudskoy, who has held the position since February 2017.

VAGS of the Russian military forces

The structure of the General Staff includes the Military Academy. This educational institution intended for personnel training and retraining of officers. VAGS trains specialists to provide protective military units. Academy graduates receive positions in the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff, intelligence, and secret units.

First Deputy Chief operational management(GOU) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir spoke at the 7th Xiangshan Security Forum, which takes place on October 10-12 in Beijing, on the topic “The US Global Layered Missile Defense (BMD) System as a Threat to Russia’s Military Security and China and strategic stability in the world."

“Missile defense is one of the key topics on which the prevention of an arms race and nuclear disarmament, as well as ensuring strategic stability and military security in the world currently directly depend,” stated Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir.

He noted that as a result of the unilateral withdrawal of the United States of America from the 1972 ABM Treaty in 2002, the cornerstone of the system of global strategic stability was destroyed. The Pentagon has launched large-scale work to create a national missile defense system capable of upsetting the existing balance of power in the world.

“Due to the possession of missile defense systems, the United States seeks to gain significant advantages in strategic weapons systems over Russia and China. This can lead to unpredictable consequences,” said the first deputy head of the State Educational Institution.

According to Victor Poznikhir, the illusion of invulnerability and impunity under the missile defense umbrella will encourage Washington to take unilateral steps in solving global and regional problems. This can objectively lead to a reduction in the threshold for use nuclear weapons to forestall enemy actions.

“For clarity, let’s imagine the following picture: in the arena there are two gladiators of approximately equal strength, each with a sword in his hand. They know the strong and weak sides both our own and the enemy. Both understand that if a fight starts, it will be bad for both of them, and it is unknown who will emerge victorious. This deters them from attacking each other,” said Lieutenant General Poznikhir. - If one of the gladiators picks up a shield, he will gain a significant advantage and will think that he is able to win, especially if he strikes first. What should the second gladiator do? Naturally, he will also take up a shield, as well as a longer and stronger sword. This is roughly what is happening today as a result of the deployment of the American missile defense system.”

As the first deputy head of the GOU emphasized, Russia, together with its Chinese partners, carefully analyzed the composition, deployment and combat capabilities of the US-created global system PRO.

“I would like to emphasize that Russian and Chinese assessments of her negative influence on strategic stability completely coincided. Using the thesis of the Iranian and North Korean “missile threats” as a pretext, one of the elements of the US strategic triad is being deployed in close proximity to the borders of Russia and China. At the same time, the missile defense system significantly changes the balance of power in the field of offensive weapons, as it allows for more effective planning of a disarming missile strike,” said Viktor Poznikhir.

According to him, the true goals of creating a global US missile defense system are: reducing the potential of Russia's strategic nuclear forces, and in relation to the Chinese nuclear missile potential - obtaining the opportunity to completely reset it; the covert creation of a powerful strike component for possible disarming and decapitation strikes on our countries; as well as expanding capabilities for destruction artificial satellites Earth in low orbits.

The First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation commented on what these conclusions are based on.

According to Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir, the configuration and total anti-missile potential of the US global missile defense system are inadequate to the level of real and predicted missile threats cited by Washington.

“So, North Korea is currently only demonstrating its capabilities to create long-range ballistic missiles. I consider it generally inappropriate to talk about the missile threat from Iran after the agreements have been concluded on its nuclear program,” said the deputy head of the State Educational Institution.

However, the US missile defense system, according to the data stated by the Americans, by 2020 will include about 50 GBI anti-missile missiles, about 700 ground- and sea-based Standard-3 anti-missile missiles and more than 200 THAAD anti-missile missiles.

“Even with the calculation that several anti-missile missiles will be assigned to one target, it turns out - we're talking about about the potential ability of the missile defense system to intercept hundreds of missiles! - Victor Poznikhir emphasized.

According to him, more than forty missile defense ships will carry out combat service in various waters of the World Ocean, including the seas washing the shores of the Russian Federation and China.

Thus, under the pretext of countering the North Korean and Iranian “missile threats,” a system is being deployed, designed primarily to combat Russian and Chinese missiles, the speaker said.

Research institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense carried out modeling of options combat use US missile defense assets. It showed that the Standard-3 anti-missile missiles have the ability to intercept ICBMs and SLBMs not only in the middle, as claimed by the United States, but also in the initial part of the missiles’ flight path. This poses a more serious threat to the nuclear potential of Russia and China, since interceptor missiles will be capable of hitting Russian and Chinese ballistic missiles before their warheads separate from their sustainer stages. This fact was confirmed by a number of independent American experts.

According to Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir, the Standard-3 anti-missile missile of modification 2A, fired from a ship from the water area Baltic Sea, is capable of shooting down a Russian intercontinental ballistic missile launched from European Russian territory. Interception occurs in the acceleration phases of missile flight.

In addition, the Mk-41 universal launchers located on missile defense ships, in addition to the Standard-3 anti-missile missiles, are used to launch Tomahawk high-precision long-range cruise missiles, said the first deputy chief of the Main Directorate of Defense.

“These launchers are used at missile defense bases in Romania and Poland. American arguments that they are not capable of using ground-based cruise missiles due to design features and software and algorithmic limitations are, to put it mildly, unconvincing,” said Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir. “As a rocket scientist by training, I authoritatively declare that any devices that allegedly do not allow placing a cruise missile in the containers of a ground-based complex can be easily dismantled, and software-algorithmic limitations are completely eliminated by pressing the program reset button.”

In addition, Viktor Poznikhir recalled that the very fact of using a ship-based cruise missile launcher in a ground-based version is a violation by the United States of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This Treaty prohibits the deployment of ground-based systems with a cruise missile firing range of more than 500 km. And the reach zone of Tomahawk missiles is 2500 km.

Viktor Poznikhir emphasized that almost the entire European part of Russia could come under attack from American cruise missiles. At the same time, the re-equipment of Mk-41 launchers with Tomahawk cruise missiles at bases in Europe and on missile defense ships can be carried out covertly and in a short time.

“We also know about the work ongoing in the United States in the field of using Mk-41 launchers for the deployment of hypersonic weapons systems. And this is a different flight time to targets, much shorter and a much greater threat to Russia’s security,” said the lieutenant general. — And finally, who can guarantee that instead of the THAAD complex, the Aegis Ashore ground complex, similar to those located in Romania and Poland, will not be deployed in South Korea in the future? And in this case, a significant part of China’s territory will be under possible attack,” Victor Poznikhir posed the question.

According to the information of the first deputy head of the Main Directorate of Defense, in February 2008, the United States demonstrated the ability to destroy spacecraft with missile defense strike weapons. Then the American satellite at an altitude of about 250 km was destroyed by a Standard-3 anti-missile modification 1A launched from a US Navy destroyer from the Hawaiian Islands.

The capabilities of the promising Standard-3 anti-missile missiles, modification 2A, with an increased destruction zone, as well as the GBI anti-missile missiles, are much greater. This allows you to destroy spacecraft Russian and Chinese orbital groups. Moreover, given the global nature of the actions of ships with anti-missile defenses, the United States will be able to interfere in the space activities of any state.

“We have repeatedly drawn the attention of Americans to these factors, but our arguments are not accepted, obvious facts are ignored. In response, we hear unfounded statements about the “non-directionality” of the created missile defense system against Russia and China,” stated Viktor Poznikhir. “Our initiatives to conclude relevant international agreements that would relieve the Russian side’s concerns in connection with the creation of a US missile defense system were not accepted by the American side.”

According to the first deputy head of the GOU, “The United States refuses to provide legally binding guarantees that its anti-missile potential will not be directed against the Russian Federation with the development effective measures transparency and verification".

In addition, the United States and its allies are blocking Russian-Chinese initiatives at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva in the field of preventing the deployment of weapons in space, the use of force and the threat of force against space objects.

Also, the United States and its allies actually refused to discuss the issue of creating a missile defense system in Europe, rejecting the options they proposed taking into account Russian interests.

In addition, despite the agreements reached with Iran on its nuclear program, the deployment of the European segment of the missile defense system is proceeding according to the previously planned plan.

According to Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir, all of the above actions do not add credibility to US statements that missiles and satellites from Russia and China are not considered targets for the missile defense system being created.

“I would also like to draw Special attention that the US regional missile defense systems in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region are one of the echelons of the US national missile defense system. It is no coincidence that their management is under the exclusive jurisdiction of Washington, and the allies’ assets are being modernized to their standards,” said the first deputy head of the GOU.

According to Russian military experts, the United States hopes, by possessing it, to be able to launch a surprise nuclear missile strike with impunity in any region of the world, not excluding Russia and China.

“The logic here is simple: the means developed within the framework of the “global instant strike” concept are used to deliver so-called “decapitation and disarming strikes”; The missiles that survived from the attacked side, launched in the direction of the United States for a retaliatory strike, are destroyed by a multi-echelon missile defense system,” said Victor Poznikhir. “But hope for such a development of events is a dangerous illusion.”

According to him, Russia is forced to take adequate response measures aimed at ensuring that the missile defense plans of the United States and its allies cannot affect the existing balance of power in the field of strategic weapons. China acts in a similar way.

“I would like to emphasize that by hosting American missile defense systems, the governments of the respective countries are making their people hostage to American claims to the unpunished use of force,” said Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir.

“Before presenting conclusions based on the results of my speech, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that military experts from Russia and China are unanimous in assessing the true direction of the US missile defense system. We are working together on how to minimize possible damage to the security of our countries as a result of the creation of its segment in the Asia-Pacific region,” noted the First Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. “This year we have already conducted the first joint Russian-Chinese computer-based command post exercises on missile defense.”

During these exercises, we practiced various options joint actions to protect against missile attacks from a mock enemy who has deployed a group of missile defense systems near our borders. Similar events will be held in 2017.

According to Lieutenant General Viktor Poznikhir, based on the results of the analysis of the actions of the United States and its allies in the field of missile defense, the following conclusions can be drawn:

First. The US decision to create a global layered missile defense system is not related to the response to Iranian missile threats and North Korea. It is determined, first of all, by the desire to gain military superiority over Russia and China.

Second. The American global layered missile defense system, with anti-missile, anti-space and strike potentials, is integral part US strategic offensive forces. The main task of its regional components is to serve cutting edge blocking the strategic nuclear forces and space group of Russia and China. US missile defense is not a means of defense, it is an element of the implementation of plans to achieve strategic dominance in the world.

Third. The US goal of involving allies in its own missile defense plans is not to build a joint defense, but to put a share of it on them financial costs and the use of their territories to protect the mother country. All control of the system is in the hands of the Americans. The Pentagon will decide who and when to defend. The population of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region is becoming hostage to the unpredictable actions of the United States in the field of missile defense.