11月，梅德韦杰夫总统在对俄罗斯国家杜马的国情咨文演说中警告，俄罗斯会在加里宁格勒的波罗的海港口上部署短程的伊斯坎德尔导弹 ， “ 在必要时抗衡欧洲的反弹道导弹系统 ” 。
In his speech in November to the Russian parliament on the state of nation, President Dmitry Medvedev warned that Russia would deploy short-range Iskander missiles in the Baltic Sea port of Kaliningrad “to neutralize if necessary the anti-ballistic missile system in Europe.”