Russia is accusing the U.S. of trying to build a new “Berlin Wall” with its plan for a new missile shield in Europe.

Russian Chief of Staff General Yuri Baluyevsky: “Today it is suggested to us, without any assessment of the threat, but simply accepting a hypothetical threat of the sort I mentioned, notably from Iran, that we should build new Berlin Walls in Europe. We are against this. We do not consider that today there is any threat of the sort that would allow us to go back to what we have left behind.”

The comments come one day after Russian President Vladimir Putin compared U.S. foreign policy with Nazi Germany.