12 December 2016, 07:13 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The ministry was commenting on the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that outgoing US President Barack Obama signed into law on Sunday, which contains large sections on anti-missile defense.
"The stories about the 'nuclear threat from Iran and North Korea', that had been used to justify the deployment of anti-missile systems, have now been put aside and we are told, directly that Washington's plans have expanded and now aim to break nuclear parity with Russia to gain one-sided strategic advantage," the ministry said.
According to the ministry, the 2017 NDAA's switch to a more large-scale protection as a goal for the US anti-missile systems was speaking for itself.
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