MOSCOW: Russia had the right to deploy its missiles anywhere within its territory, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday, in a response to Western concerns over its deployment of state-of-the-art missiles near NATO's eastern borders.

"Recently a big fuss started that we've planted our (tactical missiles) Iskanders in a wrong place," he told a meeting with students in a Moscow institute.

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