MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Russia has created a solid radar field along all of its borders to guarantee its protection from a nuclear strike, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
"All that [the deployment of new radar stations] has made it possible for the first time in Russia's new history to develop a solid radar field along our country's perimeter, a missile attack warning system in every strategic aerospace sector and for all types of ballistic missile trajectories," Shoigu said during a Government Hour hearing at the State Duma on Wednesday.
Three new Voronezh radars were successfully tested last year, in Omsk, Barnaul and Yeniseisk, the minister said. Further improvements were made to three active ones, in Baranovichi, Murmansk and Pechora, he said.