Russia reportedly slams Trump’s Golden Dome as 'provocative' as trillion-dollar shield takes shape

Russia criticized the U.S.’ projected Golden Dome rocket defence strategy Monday, informing it could destabilize planetary atomic deterrence, according to reports.

According to TASS, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev told Kommersant paper that the ambitious task is highly "provocative."

"Problems successful the strategical sphere resulting from destabilizing U.S. actions lone proceed to grow. It is capable to callback the highly provocative anti-missile task ‘Golden Dome for America,’" helium said, TASS reported.

"It fundamentally contradicts the assertion of the inseparable interrelationship betwixt violative and antiaircraft strategical arms, which, by the way, was enshrined successful the preamble of New START," Medvedev added, citing the pact that protects U.S. nationalist information by placing limits connected Russia’s deployed intercontinental atomic weapons.

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Deputy caput of Russia's Security Council Dmitry Medvedev speaks during an interrogation with Russian media astatine a residence extracurricular Moscow, Russia, March 23, 2023. (Sputnik/Yekaterina Shtukina/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)

A defence adept says Russia’s absorption underscores the Golden Dome’s powerfulness arsenic a geopolitical awesome to the world.

"Even earlier it has been built, the dome is subject focused and politically focused and an unthinkable bargaining spot with U.S. adversaries," defence adept Cameron Chell told Fox News Digital.

"In this case, it is Russia and China successful particular, successful presumption of however the U.S. postures for negotiating bid terms, pact presumption and whether the U.S. volition beryllium negating their already existing arsenal," the Draganfly CEO claimed.

The Golden Dome is simply a semipermanent rocket defence conception aimed astatine protecting North America from ballistic, cruise and hypersonic rocket threats.

Chell spoke aft the Pentagon released its National Defense Strategy connected Jan. 23, outlining a renewed absorption connected homeland defense, expanded rocket defense, counter-drone systems, cyber capabilities and long-range onslaught forces.

The planned Golden Dome rocket defence shield is designed to decision "large rocket barrages and different precocious aerial attacks," the strategy said, portion besides hardening subject and cardinal civilian infrastructure against cyber strikes arsenic Russia and China proceed expanding their hypersonic weapons programs.

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President Donald Trump announced his connection for a "Golden Dome" rocket defence strategy successful the United States connected May 20, 2025. (Leah Millis/Reuters/File Photo; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

As antecedently reported by Fox News Digital, China has besides pushed backmost against the Golden Dome rocket defence initiative, accusing Washington of undermining planetary strategical stableness and risking the weaponization of outer space.

"There’s large worth successful the speech and the build-out of Golden Dome, adjacent agelong earlier it gets built, not to notation the probe and exertion improvement that comes retired of it," Chell said.

"The posturing and the economical benefits of gathering thing similar this are besides factored into wherefore the dome is truthful important."

The project’s sheer standard is expected to thrust its strategical interaction but could besides travel with an tremendous terms tag.

"The dome is going to instrumentality trillions to physique and is the largest subject project, astir apt the largest engineering and exertion task ever attempted, truthful determination are going to beryllium challenges getting it done," Chell explained.

"The U.S. has 10 years of planning, including wherever they are going to person connection links, radar systems, and aboriginal informing systems." That planning, Chell noted, is shifting absorption north.

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The Golden Dome volition request space-based radar capabilities. (Lockheed Martin )

"In bid to support the U.S., you privation to instrumentality things down earlier they get implicit the apical of the country," Chell said.

"Places similar Canada, oregon adjacent further north, go the dropping ground. You privation to get these threats arsenic soon arsenic possible."

Canada and Greenland are viewed by U.S. defence planners arsenic captious for radar coverage, abstraction tracking and early-warning infrastructure.

"The thought is thing being changeable down from space, but to bash that you request precise elaborate scenery information of the full North and you request entree to the North," Chell said.

President Trump has agelong argued the U.S. indispensable power Greenland for nationalist information reasons, citing its strategical Arctic determination and earthy resources.

"There needs to beryllium infrastructure and oversight successful the acold north, successful Canada, successful Greenland, and places similar that," Chell said. "All that readying has to beryllium done good up of time, earlier we person thing operational."

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Chell besides pointed to the imaginable relation of drones successful supporting the Golden Dome’s broader mission.

"Drones could beryllium portion of informing the Golden Dome arsenic reconnaissance, surveillance and quality tools," helium said, adding that the "entire subject analyzable is integrated."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Department of War for comment.